On 5th December, the House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee published their Soil Health Report. The full report can be found here. The Soil Health Report acknowledges that there are many definitions of soil health measured through a…
ADBA policy analyst, Jo Goad, is currently taking part in a series of workshops hosted by the Defra Tackling Pollution from Slurry and the Agricultural Air Quality team to co-design the future regulations for reducing ammonia emissions from the agricultural…
While funding applications for 2023's Farming Equipment and Technology Fund for productivity and slurry closed in April, it was today announced that with over 3,000 applications, the funding was extended from £17 million to £31 million to enable more awards…
On the 10th of May, ADBA submitted their response to the Scottish consultation on 'ending the sale of peat in Scotland'. You can read this response below:
The National Planning Framework 4 was formally adopted in February in Scotland, banning new sites and extensions of commercial peat extraction sites apart from in very limited circumstances. However, in 2021, Scotland still supplied 300,000 m3 of peat used in the…
The Environmental Audit Committee have launched a Call for Evidence (CFE) seeking to understand more about soil health, the causes of decline in soil health and how best the government can accelerate soil restoration in England. Issues identified by the…
Cross compliance guidance has been published by Defra for 2023; it aims to simplify the various rules that farmers who claim certain payments are expected to follow for 2023. Those who need to comply with cross compliance are farmers/ land…
Due to extreme increases in energy prices, artificial fertiliser production has become economically unviable. Currently all mineral fertilizer production in the UK is suspended. CF Fertilisers UK announced that they will temporarily halt ammonia production at Billingham, instead importing ammonia…
The latest edition of AD & Bioresources News is now available, featuring: How the role of anaerobic digestion is central to $34TRN transition opportunity CHP: How you keep your motor running efficiently Appreciation: AD Champion Clare Lukehurst OBE The…
Amidst a flurry of announcements from Defra yesterday, updated guidance for applying the Farming Rules for Water was announced. In a juxtaposition from the message that government is trying to address rising fertiliser costs amidst a scramble for solutions to…
