Blogs

This event will highlight to landowners and land managers the financial and other benefits that trees and woodlands can provide; demonstrate some of the key considerations around creating, protecting and managing woodlands and highlight the range of support and funding available.

That hedges are good for wildlife & the character of our countryside is already well recognised. However, few appreciate that their linear, three-dimensional structure also means they can capture carbon at twice the rate of woodland.

The GWCT Allerton Project is looking for ten wheat farmers in the Nestlé/Purina supply chain in the East (Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Northants) to work together to baseline, trial, train, benchmark, network and innovate their way towards net zero.

Environmental organisations are calling for more land designations in their first annual progress report on the Government’s commitment to protect 30% of land and sea by 2030. However, designations in themselves will not achieve what they seek - the restoration of biodiversity. 

Drones might be the latest recreational gadget; however, their aerial imaging capabilities make them excellent tools for habitat and wildlife research. To discuss this further, staff members from across the trust recently met up at the GWCT Allerton Project, equipped with some state-of-the-art drones and eager placement student pilots.

It's UK Soils Awareness Week 2022 from 10-16th October and we recently hosted a fascinating webinar on soil carbon with Professor David Powlson, who led the research on carbon cycling at Rothamsted Research. You can watch the video of the webinar here.

The production and application of non-nitrogen fertilisers adds a further 10% to our average farm’s GHG footprint. From this we can see that optimisation and reduction of the use of fertilisers holds the key to reducing the climate impact of arable production.

Joe Stanley reports on another successful Open Farm Sunday at the Allerton Project.

Once again, growers have been struggling in recent weeks with what has been for most yet another prolonged period of dry weather, broken only sporadically and in postcode lottery fashion by heavy showers winging in from the Atlantic.

It was encouraging to see the results of a long-term study of wildlife on a large commercial arable farm which were published on Tuesday 2nd August. The results support those of the longer-running GWCT Allerton Project, which is now in its third decade.