When it comes to the shape of UK farming post-Brexit, much of the focus has been on future trade deals and the amount of financial support likely to be available to farmers in the years ahead. There’s no doubt these issues will be key to a new-look domestic farm policy…

When DEFRA launched its Clean Air Strategy in January, it was a clear signal to the UK dairy sector that it would be expected to take steps to improve its environmental performance. Agriculture accounts for 87% of UK ammonia emissions — a gas which is harmful to the environment as…

Outside the European Union, direct support payments for farmers will be replaced with systems that offer public money for public goods. Promar environmental specialist Vicki Halliwell looks at some of the payment systems UK farmers could work with in future — Stacking, blending and bundling don’t sound like obvious terms to associate with agriculture, but outside the Common Agricultural Policy they could be words UK farmers soon have to get to grips with.

If you’ve read or watched the news recently, you can’t help but have seen one of the many stories criticising livestock production for its apparent negative impact on the environment. With headlines claiming we need to ‘go vegan to save the planet’, the message seems to be simple: livestock, particularly…

Another month, and livestock farming has found itself back under the spotlight thanks to a new report linking food production with climate change. Published by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the report calls for changes to the way we manage land in an effort to reduce greenhouse…

With the NFU committing to help farmers reach net zero emissions a full decade ahead of the government’s 2050 target, there’s little doubt that producers are going to have to get to grips with understanding — and managing — their greenhouse gas emissions. Given the criticism agriculture increasingly faces for…