Martin Kennedy (NFU Scotland President) recently took to social media to claim environmental delivery is incompatible with food production, and NFFN Scotland responded....
NFFN have teamed up with the Woodland Trust to champion farmers who are protecting ancient & veteran trees on their land. If you took all the old trees growing on farms in the UK and put them in one place, you would...
Written by Denise Walton, Peelham Farm, Scotland Looking at your lovely green lawn right now made from mown and grown gra...
UK grasslands are an essential cog in ecosystem function. They lock in vast amounts of carbon, accounting for one-third of the earth’s carbon storage and two billion tonnes of carbon in UK grassland soils. Above a...
Written by Ruairi Brogan, Policy Officer, RSPB NI As Northern Ireland develops domestic agriculture policies to replace the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), there must be a greater focus on securing environmental objectives and ou...
Written by farmer Will Frazer in Northern Ireland We have been working on a project with the Nature Friendly Farming Network to provide a farm baseline audit for soils, biodiversity and carbon. This included a whole farm biodiversity asse...
Farming is changing – from the sole purpose of producing as much food as efficiently as possible to a new future where food production works alongside climate mitigation, biodiversity restoration, improved water quality and increased soil he...
On 24 March, the decisions on proposals for future agriculture policy in Northern Ireland were published by DAERA. This followed a 12-week public consultation which finished in mid-February. The future agriculture p...
There is no doubt that trees play a vital role in addressing the nature and climate crisis. Woodland, agroforestry and hedgerows can make us more resilient to climate change and create a nature-rich landscape that is beneficial to both farmland an...
Author: Kirsty Tait, Sustainable Farming Lead in Scotland Along with the global population, Scotland is in a period of significant agricultural and land-use transition, driven by the legally binding...
