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Australia’s near record milk price is set to provide dairy producers with a welcome boost in profits after years of unsustainable returns. By Bruce Jobson.

Australias near record milk price is set to provide dairy producers with a welcome boost in profits after years of unsustainable returns. By Bruce Jobson.

Fulcrum, an independent multi-utility infrastructure and service provider, has secured a £1.6 million project with grain storage co-operative Camgrain.

Laura Yates, 25, lives on her family’s beef, sheep and arable farm near Bridgnorth, Shropshire. She currently works at Pinstone as an agri PR consultant.

This spring saw the launch of TerraMap Carbon, a new service from Hutchinsons which will help growers to obtain more accurate carbon baseline measurements.

The chemical element carbon has some notable properties. It exists in pure form but also combines with other elements to form more compounds than all other elements combined.

Collection of produce from farms has slowed up, as has delivery of vital inputs such as seed and animal feeds.

Now is the time for farmers and agronomists to act to address carbon footprint on farms, according to Farmacy agronomist and service leader Matt Ward.

Foxburrow Farm, a mixed arable and livestock farm in Norfolk, has reduced its carbon footprint as a result of changes to its cultivation strategy, the consequent reduction in time spent on the land, Controlled Traffic Management and decreased herbicide and insecticide use.

New Holland is in the final stages of bringing a methane-powered version of its T6-180 tractor to market which will deliver impressive reductions in particulates, nitrous oxide and CO2, reduced running costs and a resulting reduction in carbon footprint.