Blogs
8/3/2023 in: Allerton Project Research Blog under: Allerton Project , Farming , Farmland Ecology
The health of our soil literally and metaphorically underlies the ecosystem on which we all depend. Not least, it is fundamental to farming.
24/1/2023 in: Allerton Project Research Blog under: Allerton Project , Farming
This is the first of a sequence of blog posts based on chapters from Farming with the Environment: Thirty Years of Allerton Project Research. Logically enough, I am starting at the beginning, not the beginning of the Allerton Project, but the earliest evidence we have for agricultural activity on the farm at Loddington in Leicestershire.
20/9/2022 in: Allerton Project Research Blog under: Allerton Project , Farming
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.
26/8/2022 in: Allerton Project Research Blog under: Allerton Project , Farming
Joe Stanley reports on another successful Open Farm Sunday at the Allerton Project.
17/8/2022 in: Allerton Project Research Blog under: Allerton Project , Farming
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.
25/7/2022 in: Allerton Project Research Blog under: Allerton Project , Farming
Alastair Leake, GWCT Head of Policy, explains more about a project to establish a Hedgerow Carbon Code that benefits carbon storage and biodiversity.
10/12/2021 in: Allerton Project Research Blog under: Allerton Project , Farming
The crop drill has been busy here at Loddington, with farmers across the country relieved to experience a ‘normal’ autumn drilling season for the first time since 2018 – or at least a ten day window into which frenzied work has been committed!
20/12/2019 in: Allerton Project Research Blog under: Allerton Project , Farming
18/10/2019 in: Allerton Project Research Blog under: Allerton Project , Farming
Prof. Chris Stoate, Allerton Project Head of Research, reports from Brussels where he has been learning from a range of EU partners about the latest developments in results-based payments for biodiversity.
16/4/2018 in: Allerton Project Research Blog under: Farming , Allerton Project
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.
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