Soil and Environment [DA.SE]
Scotland’s Dairy Sector’s Progress Towards Net Zero 2045
The Scottish Government has released the latest figures for Scottish agriculture’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and nitrogen use for the accounting year 2022-23. The results are broadly positive with the…
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MMN July 2024 – Carbon, Biodiversity and Regenerative Agriculture
Your Milk Buyers’ Plans and How to Stay Ahead of the Curve Milk companies, food manufacturers and food product retailers are increasingly aligning themselves with the regenerative agriculture movement. This…
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MMN March 2024 – Renewed Support for Slurry Storage
Nothing says Happy Valentine’s Day like support for slurry storage! Eagle-eyed readers of Milk Manager News will have noticed that it has been some time since the announcement of continued…
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The Benefit of AECS for Dairy Farmers
With the announcement of the return of the Agri-Environment Climate Scheme , in what is, at the time of writing, the last confirmed funding round, many within the industry are…
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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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MMN September 2023 – Soil Health: Dairying from the Ground Up
Soil is the platform that underpins everything that you as dairy farmers do. However, soil health has frequently been a neglected key performance indicator (KPI). There are three pillars to…
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Organic Conversion: Case Study Introduction
The key considerations, challenges and opportunities when bringing land under organic management Leo Petrucci has farmed Outer Blair as an organic dairy unit since 1999. The farm lies within the…
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MMN July 2023 – Sharing Best Practice from an Organic Dairy
Since fertiliser prices rocketed in 2021, the Stranraer Sustainable Group of dairy farmers (part of the FAS Connect Programme) has been assessing their use of inorganic fertilisers to reduce their…
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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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