Environment [DA.SE.E]
MMN September 2023 – Nature Auditing and Restoration
From 2025, Scottish Government intends that 50% of a farm’s Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) support will be conditional on set nature outcomes. Currently it is unclear what these outcomes will…
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Milk Manager News May 2023 – Get In On The Green
For a number of years now we have seen land prices driven to historic highs, pushed by incentives around tree planting and as a consequence, productive farms have been lost…
Read More >Ways to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Dairy Enterprises
A carbon audit is a useful tool to help monitor the technical efficiencies of a dairy enterprise. The carbon footprint shows the level of greenhouse gases being produced through activities…
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FAS Connect Sustainable Dairy Group Trip to Northern Ireland
In October I had the pleasure of taking a group of dairy farmers from FAS Connect’s “Sustainable Dairy Ayrshire” group on a short trip to Northern Ireland to see different…
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Milk Manager News November 2022 – Upcoming Options For Steading Developments
Readers of Milk Manager News will be accustomed to me waxing lyrically over the environmental options available to the sector and how farms can make best use of these. In…
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Importance of Nutrient Budgeting for Fertiliser Purchasing
With uncertainty surrounding fertiliser markets and fertiliser availability, recent soil analysis, manure analysis and preparation of a nutrient budget in advance of any fertiliser purchases will give you the best…
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Constructed Farm Wetlands
With the most recent round of the Sustainable Agriculture Capital Grant Scheme application window now in the rear-view mirror, farmers across Scotland operating on slurry systems will be waiting anxiously…
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Nature Based Solutions for the Dairy Sector
In the weeks and months in the run-up to the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, we heard a lot about the need for farming to reduce emissions and address biodiversity…
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Webinar: Are you milking your environment?
Future payments to dairy farmers may alter with more emphasis on the environment and biodiversity. The BRIDE – Biodiversity Regeneration in a Dairying Environment – project in Ireland has been…
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Winter slurry storage & contingency planning – Information note
Winter slurry storage & contingency planning – Information note Making best use of nutrients in slurry should be every landowners goal. Forward planning is essential to manage slurry in a…
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