Vertical farming has attracted a lot of interest and investment money over the past few years. However, high energy prices have impacted the sector, so how can firms adapt to better manage energy costs as well as other challenges?
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IAgM Farm Walk Event
‘Building Resilience from the Ground Up: Exploring Regenerative Land Management in Scotland’ Date: Tuesday, 4th June 2024 Location: Balbirnie Home Farms, Pitillock Farm, Freuchie, Cupar, Fife, KY15 7JQ Hosted by: Johnnie Balfour, Managing Partner, Balbirnie Home Farms Agenda: The format will be a ‘Farm Walk’ event with a ‘So What?’ discussion encouraging open and interactive […]
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Financing Innovation – R&D Tax Relief
Agricultural businesses can leverage R&D tax credits, whether successful or not, to innovate in areas such as animal vaccines, sustainable practices, and technology use, with specialist support from Farmlytics and partners.
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UK farming and the CPTPP
On Friday 31 March, the UK government announced it had reached an agreement to join the CPTPP (Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership). The CPTPP is the first major trade agreement since Brexit – so what will be the impact of the CPTPP on UK farming? What is the CPTPP? The CPTPP is a Free Trade […]
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Food Security in a Pandemic
COVID-19 continues to take its toll on many areas of life and the global economy. As well damage to peoples health and livelihoods for many food security has also suffered. Many countries have taken steps to ensure farming and food production continues running as an essential business despite wider restrictions on economic activity. Due to […]
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ASF’s Global Impact
African Swine flu is having a global impact on pork production and trade.
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Boost for Livestock Research
Improving the productivity of livestock in developing countries will have a number of benefits, firstly by helping to meet the increasing global demand for animal protein, helping to alleviate poverty in developing countries, and also to reduce greenhouse gas emissions per unit of animal protein produced.
Enjoy the Brussels sprouts today. The perfect Winter vegetable which can even be used as a source of “Green” energy. Merry Christmas from Farmlytics.
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Future Tractor Power
The basic design of the tractor – the workhorse of agriculture, has remained little changed since the days of Harry Ferguson, new technology e.g. precision systems and GPS have been added, but some fundamentals remain e.g. the basic chassis design and three point linkage, a drivers seat, and a diesel engine. That however may soon […]
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Leaving the single market
Teresa May has set out the UK governments approach and aims in its negotiations to leave the European Union, causing immediate concern among Britain’s farmers. After signalling a clear intention to leave the single market, real questions remain on how UK trade will operate post Brexit, particularly on the issue of tariffs and how WTO […]