Tuesday, 28 May 2013

A tale of two owners

Nocton Estate - the future is bright

Is There Grass In That Milk?

'Free-Range Dairy is a new initiative that could reverse the trend towards industrialised mega-farms.'

http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/1938283/is_there_grass_in_that_milk.html

Prime Lincs farmland snapped up by billionaire Dyson

'Billionaire inventor Sir James Dyson has embarked on an agricultural spending spree, snapping up thousands of acres of Lincolnshire farmland.'

http://www.fwi.co.uk/articles/14/03/2013/138139/prime-lincs-farmland-snapped-up-by-billionaire-dyson.html

Beeswax Farming (Rainbow) Ltd

The new owners of Nocton Estate.

http://nocton.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/beeswax-farming-rainbow-ltd.html

Environmental Stewardship

'Environmental Stewardship is an agri-environment scheme that provides funding to farmers and other land managers in England to deliver effective environmental management on your land.'

http://www.naturalengland.gov.uk/ourwork/farming/funding/es/default.aspx

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