Farming

Introduced with much fanfare earlier in the summer, Agri-Climate Rural Environmental Scheme (ACRES) has taken up a lot of head space of late. Having spent a lot of time since its introduction reading about it it’s only in the last few weeks that I’ve been trying to work out how, […]

After such a dry summer it was inevitable that we’d get enough rain at some point to balance out the annual rainfall. From the middle of October heavy downpours signalled the onset of housing stock and the wind down to the grazing season for the year began. I housed a […]

After a build-up that dominated the airwaves at the time, a figure for the cut in emissions in Agriculture was set at 25 per cent in late July. I’m glad a decision was reached and the debate – that at its extreme turned extremely toxic on social media channels – […]