Cattle Grazing Articles & Analysis

As part of government water management plans to improve water and air quality, help protect local communities from flooding, provide wildlife with valuable habitats and support carbon sequestration, nature-rich peatland habitats will be better protected through a ban on burning in the uplands. Peatlands – which are often described as the country’s lungs – are an essential ...

By H2O Building Services

A drive to transform agriculture into a low carbon and nature positive industry while delivering healthy food requires action across the whole supply chain. ADAS Climate and Sustainability Managing Director Sarah Wynn shares how current and future innovations can help. As we look towards a future of climate-friendly farming, change is needed. In the 1930s, my great grandfather ploughed his ...

By RSK ADAS Ltd

The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), in coordination with the U.S. Departments of the Interior, Agriculture, and Defense, this week released a study showing that there is significant potential for further expanding renewable energy production on federal lands. The most comprehensive study of its kind finds that onshore federal lands in the contiguous United ...

By Smart Grid Observer

Over millennia, Middle Eastern farmers and pastoralists have developed systems to maintain a delicate balance between ecosystem exploitation and preservation to ensure their own subsistence, that of their animals, and the regeneration of soil and grasslands. A prime example is the community-managed, ancestral grazing system known as Hima in Jordan and Lebanon and Gdel in Tunisia. Still practiced ...

By International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Land degradation impacts livelihoods and ecosystems globally by reducing food production, water purification and biodiversity levels. According to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, as of 2022, up to 40% of the planet’s land has been degraded, which threatens more than half of global GDP, an amount equivalent to USD 44 trillion. However, this degradation is not happening ...

By International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

This week, Defra has begun opening up applications for the 2024 Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI), allowing a wider range of land managers to now avail of Defra funding. Following the move away from the Basic Payments Scheme (BPS), this SFI funding is now available to any land manager, including those not previously registered for ...

By RSK ADAS Ltd

AES Hawaiʻi this week announced the launch of its West O‘ahu solar-plus-storage project in Kapolei – the company’s first facility to combine solar generation and battery energy storage on O‘ahu. Located on 66 acres of open University of Hawai‘i land, the West O‘ahu solar-plus-storage facility is generating 12.5 MW of clean energy for O‘ahu’s power ...

By Smart Grid Observer

It’s an inescapable fact these days that freshwater ecosystems around the UK are being put under increasing amounts of pressure, with climate change, extreme weather events, population growth, urbanisation, water mismanagement and pollution all taking their toll on both water quality and water quantity. One of the leading sources of impact is agriculture, with river health affected by the ...

By H2O Building Services

For decades, rural depopulation in Europe has generated socio-cultural, economic and environmental impacts. One of them is the loss of traditional agricultural, livestock and forestry activities, which are more respectful of nature than intensive industries and generate more jobs. In addition, the gradual disappearance of grazing means that forests are becoming overgrown with weeds that increase ...

By Salher

A new UN report examining how land resources such as water, soil and biodiversity are being managed around the world has found that human activity is damaging and degrading the earth in an unsustainable way. The second edition of the Global Land Outlook – which has taken five years to compile – indicates that up to 40 per cent of terrain worldwide has already been devalued, ...

By H2O Building Services

The Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers (RABDF) has scooped two top national awards from the National Association Awards (NAA) for Best Online Event and Best Lobbying Campaign. The RABDF beat off stiff competition to win the Best Online Event for Dairy-Tech Online, which replaced the face-to-face event at Stoneleigh last year due to Covid-19. Dairy-Tech Online was a resounding success, ...

By The Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers (RABDF)

Lightsource bp, a global leader in the development and management of solar energy projects, will be outlining their proposal to fund, develop and build a 20MW solar installation on 69 acres of land at Lawns Farm, Ballam Road, Lytham St Annes, FY8 4NG, at an online Q&A session on Wednesday 30th June at 7:30pm. Lightsource bp is inviting residents from the surrounding area to join the ...

By Lightsource BP

Pasture-based systems to profit from sensor technology With the winter season around the corner, it is all about planning to make the year ahead a smooth and profitable one. Accurate and easy to use cow sensor technology from Nedap has been proven successful for pasture-based systems and helps to achieve farm goals and create peace of mind. The new breeding season is almost ...

By Censortec

Congratulations to Clayton Korte and BK Architects on their 2021 GREEN GOOD DESIGN award-winning solar canopy! This prestigious award is for their design of the Saxum Vineyard Equipment Barn solar canopy in Paso Robles, CA. Awarded by The European Centre for Architecture Art, Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum, the GREEN GOOD DESIGN’s goal is to bestow international ...

By Lumos Solar

Lightsource bp, a leading solar development company, will be presenting their initial ideas for a new Anglesey solar installation to the local community for their input. The company is proposing to fund, develop and build the 350MW Môn solar farm on three parcels of land in the north east of the island, including industrial areas surrounding the former Rhosgoch Oil Terminal. ...

By Lightsource BP

Lightsource bp, a global leader in the development and management of solar energy projects, will be outlining their proposal to fund, develop and build a 49.9MW solar installation on 238 acres of land at Sheraton Hall Farm, Sheraton, County Durham, TS27 4RD, at an online Q&A session on 4th November. Lightsource bp is inviting residents from the surrounding area to join the session via the ...

By Lightsource BP

September 14 – 16, 2021, Lillehammer, Norway Models allow gazing into a hypothetical future, let us experiment with future scenarios, and understand physical processes better. Many decisions rely on models being right – and for the right reason. Therefore, a better observational basis, improved understanding of processes and a better description of those processes are key to ...

By The Norwegian Hydrological Council

Lightsource bp, a global leader in the development and management of solar energy projects, will be outlining their proposal to fund, develop and build a 32MW solar installation on 137 acres of land at Webbery Barton and Cleave Farms, Gammaton Moor, at a virtual community information event on Thursday 29th October. Lightsource bp is inviting residents from the surrounding area to attend the ...

By Lightsource BP

Lightsource bp, a global leader in the development and management of solar energy projects, will be outlining their proposal to fund, develop and build a 49.9MW solar installation on 173 acres of land at Gonerby Moor, near Cliff Lane, Marston, Lincolnshire, at a virtual community information event on Thursday 22nd October. Lightsource bp is inviting residents from the surrounding area to ...

By Lightsource BP

Lightsource bp, a global leader in the development and management of solar energy projects, will be outlining their proposal to fund, develop and build a 32MW solar farm on 173 acres of land at Winkburn Estate, Newark, NG22 8PG, at an online Q&A session on Thursday 15th October. Lightsource bp is inviting residents from the surrounding area to dial in to the session, where further ...

By Lightsource BP