Sustainable Food Trust

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Grasslands – and the grazing livestock they support – have been fundamentally important to Scotland’s people for millennia. Some of this is easily quantified: grazing livestock are, for example, an important source of employment in rural areas, providing vital economic opportunities in some of the country’s most fragile communities.

Livestock 81

Livestock Pasture Cattle Arable Land 81

Farming Secrets

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Decreased water and wind erosion as with the current rate of soil loss by 2050 we will have lost 95% of arable lands to degradation and desertification. Transplanting into clover Pasture cropped oats sown into native pasture – Colin Seis Winnona NSW Dust Storm in SA 2009 thousands of years of topsoil up up and away.

Greenhouse 98

Greenhouse Pasture Crop Arable Land 98

Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

In periods of high rainfall, grasslands and woodlands soak up water much more effectively than arable land, reducing the speed of runoff and the risk of rivers bursting their banks.[xvii] xxxiii] This is largely due to ammonia emissions from heavy fertiliser use and intensive livestock farming.

Food 64

Food Farming Farming Agriculture 64

Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 14, 2025

Here, Marianne writes about the experience of a number of farmers in Germany, who discuss the most humane methods for handling and slaughter, on pasture and amongst the herd. He has a herd of about 60 beef cattle, most were born on one of his pastures. She farms 220 hectares, of which 100 hectares are permanent pastures.

Pasture 64

Pasture Straw Cattle Arable Land 64