Sustainable Food Trust

JANUARY 14, 2025

As news of weed killer resistant plants hits the headlines, Patrick Holden reflects on discussions at the latest Oxford Real Farming Conference, highlighting why the plough may not be the worst option when it comes to nature-friendly cultivation. The theme was how ploughing and cultivation can be good for soil health.

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Ploughing Cultivation Pesticide Farming 59

Farming Secrets

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

This is critical distinction as to the effect of leaving land exposed of deforestation of overgrazing and the use of the plough and industrialised chemical farming has alter vast amounts of the earths land surface, as the amount of heat reradiated from the surface is = to the surface temperature to the power of 4!

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Greenhouse Pasture Crop Arable Land 98

Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Although they were not officially tenants of more than half the land, they continued to farm all 61 acres, grazing 20 acres of pasture that had passed into the hands of Bristol City Council, and managing the remaining 13 acres as a hay meadow by sub-letting it from the tenant of the company that had made the original purchase.

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Farming Farming Meadow Acre 145

Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

It gave me enough time to ford a cow pasture and find a hillside seat to watch this aerial display. America’s recent history with farming in the Midwest sees a change from horse-and-ploughs to tractors during the 1930s and 40s – especially after World War 2. How did America Establish Today’s Farming Methods?

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Farming Farming Acre Seeding 52