by admin | Aug 19, 2024 | All
We should hang our heads in shame at our safety record As a farmer or farmworker, you are 21 times more likely to be killed at work than the average Briton. If you are over the age of 45, you occupy the age bracket in which 80% of on-farm deaths occur, and if over the...
by admin | Aug 19, 2024 | All, Published Articles
Tackling climate change can benefit the bottom line In 2019’s Achieving Net Zero report, NFU president Minette Batters states that the organisation “has set the ambitious goal of reaching net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across the whole of agriculture in...
by admin | Aug 9, 2022 | All, Published Articles
Opinion: Climate change is here – don’t believe the deniers A few weeks ago I was listening to Radio 4’s The World Tonight as I did the washing up. The hairs on the back of my neck started to prickle as I listened to reports of extreme weather lashing the globe from...
by admin | Aug 9, 2022 | All, Published Articles
Opinion: Government ignoring food security warning signs The bestselling book and Hollywood film The Big Short explains the global financial crisis of 2007-08 from the viewpoint of a handful of industry insiders who foresaw the calamity years in advance.What’s...
by admin | Jun 27, 2022 | All, Other Information
LEAF Open Farm Sunday Virtual Farm Visits @ Allerton Project | Springtime Join us for a virtual farm tour around the Allerton Project with Joe Stanley. Joe gives us an insight into how so many of our amenities link into what they grow on farm, from Rapeseed oil and...