Blogs

It’s time to celebrate British farming again and we’re opening our gates for another Open Farm Sunday!

We respond to a recent piece in The Times blaming farmers for polluting the environment.

We respond to a recent letter in The Guardian on the amount of public money needed to ensure England's soil is fit for farming.

A dozen farmers recently met at Loddington as part of our Soil Biology and Soil Health project with AHDB, led by Elizabeth Stockdale at NIAB.

GWCT soil scientist Felicity Crotty congratulates the government for highlighting the importance of healthy soil, both for agriculture and the environment.

Chris Stoate provides an update on our research looking at the agricultural benefits of cover crops.

The Allerton Project has a played a major role in Defra's Sustainable Intensification research Platform (SIP) over the past three years as one of the five research and demonstration farms in the SIP network. The wider SIP consortium has involved around thirty partners, and last week, most attended a three day conference to present results, share lessons learnt, and discuss options for the future.

We respond to a recent article on the decline in farmland bird numbers by highlighting the positive action taken by individual farmers.

Last week saw the fourth meeting of an international collaboration working to improve farmland biodiversity across Europe. The GWCT is leading the North Sea Interreg PARTRIDGE project, a collaboration of partners from Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and the UK.

A recent paper on insect declines on nature reserves in Germany attracted a surprising amount of media attention last week. But then bad news always gets the limelight. Should we be worried? And is it good for farmers to have fewer pesky creatures around?