'Green' - the only way to go

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Large dairies may help global food challenge

'LARGE dairies can make a valuable contribution to meeting the global challenge of producing more food while looking after the environment, Nocton Dairies director Peter Willes has told a veterinary conference.'

http://www.farmersguardian.com/home/livestock/large-dairies-may-help-global-food-challenge/37030.article

Minister to farmers: Go green or else

'More farmers must support the Campaign for the Farmed Environment, said farm minister Jim Paice.'

http://www.fwi.co.uk/Articles/2011/02/09/125422/Minister-to-farmers-Go-green-or-else.htm

Campaign for the Farmed Environment

There are three campaign themes:

1. Farming for cleaner water and healthier soil.
2. Farmland birds
3. Farming for farm wildlife.

http://www.cfeonline.org.uk/partners/

Corn buntings make a comeback thanks to farmers

'Corn buntings are making a comeback, according to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), thanks to a few simple measures to improve the environment on farms.'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/agriculture/8311010/Corn-buntings-make-a-comeback-thanks-to-farmers.html

Farmers must get increased returns

'Large specialist dairy units such as the proposed Nocton megadairy are not looked on favourably by many British consumers, so in order to retain our current system of mostly family farms, our returns must increase.'

http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/articles.aspx?page=articles&ID=215707

UK governments have failed to support organic farming, says report

'The UK is the 'lazy man of Europe', and should follow example of other countries, according to the Soil Association.'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/feb/09/uk-government-organic-farming

UK 'lazy' with support for organic

'The organic market in Austria, Denmark, France, Germany and Switzerland continued to grow in 2009 despite the recession.'

http://www.farmersguardian.com/home/latest-news/uk-lazy-with-support-for-organic/37087.article

The UK must own up to the full scale of its emissions problem

'Outsourced emissions are a growing problem that the government is failing to acknowledge.'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/cif-green/2011/feb/08/uk-emissions-problem

UK's greenhouse gas emissions reductions an 'illusion'

'The UK may appear to have made great progress in reducing its carbon emissions, but declaring only what it produces, rather than consumes, presents a skewed picture of its carbon responsibilities and the balance sheet.'

http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/753571/uks_greenhouse_gas_emissions_reductions_an_illusion.html
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