Carbon

The row over methane inhibitor Bovaer, last week's NFUS farmer rally and FG's campaign to Save Britain's Family Farms were all on the agenda this week from Farmers Guardian's Head of News and Business Alex Black

If there was a situation where carbon emissions were being reduced from UK meat, but higher carbon products were continuing to be imported, businessman Henry Dimbleby said a carbon border tax would be ‘theoretically' right, but questioned how it could be done legislatively

While cattle emissions are generally negative for the environment, ruminant agriculture is a positive contributor to soil health showed by results from a recent Soil Association Exchange report

"It is quite scary when we have one viewpoint being pushed which could hurt so many farm businesses"

Grower groups urged to adopt more environmentally friendly farming methods

"Intensive farming, with its reliance on artificial nitrogen, vanishing peat and corrupting the soil, will not see many more tomorrows. It is literally unsustainable"

Glastonbury and Somerton MP Sarah Dyke has written a letter to the new Energy and Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband calling on the Labour Government to ensure rural communities receive benefits from solar farms

The retailer said it aims to be supplied by 'completely' Net Zero carbon British farms in six years' time

From the Danish Government putting a carbon tax on farmers to investing in the next generation following the General Election - these are six farming stories not to miss this week on FG

Last week the Danish Government announced its plans for an agricultural carbon tax, but one Danish farm group claims it is 'pure bureaucracy'