by Laura Drury | Sep 15, 2021 | blog
Following on from our last blog, we look at the specific challenges of achieving net zero in agriculture by 2050… The impact of agriculture on the environment is both significant – in the UK it accounts for about 10% of total greenhouse gas emissions...
by Laura Drury | Jul 14, 2021 | blog
It wasn’t that long ago that the plough was the most important implement on the arable farm, or the livestock farm come to that. Things have changed a bit since then; not to the extent that the plough is no longer significant – it is; but in the machinery...
by Laura Drury | May 12, 2021 | blog
These days we call it ‘food security’: the idea of safeguarding an availability of food – enough food, and food of the right kind – for all. Thanks, variously, to Brexit, Covid-19 and climate change, it’s an idea that’s been much in the news. Last summer,...
by Laura Drury | Apr 1, 2021 | blog
As part of our ‘pioneers in agriculture’ series we take a look at Joseph Elkington: the man who transformed the agricultural landscape through his work in land drainage. ‘Pioneer of Land Drainage’ is the phrase found on the modest monument to Joseph Elkington that...
by Laura Drury | Mar 11, 2021 | blog
Mark Woodin runs a large privately owned estate, Chilton Home Farms on the Buckinghamshire/ Oxfordshire border. He came from a farming family, and has seen long service at Chilton, where he started working 30 years’ ago, at the age of 24. The estate is a mixed dairy...
