In this edition:

• The water white paper
• The UK food market
• Food waste
• Understanding the science behind the animal
• Methane from ruminant livestock
• Continous housing of dairy cows
• Upland farming
• Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture
• and finally...

CountrysideUpdate_March_2012.doc

In this edition:

• Higher level skills
• Robotics
• Food security, farming and climate change to 2050
• Farmers and climate change
• Climate change and woodlands
• Farming poverty
• and finally...

CountrysideUpdate_winter_10.doc

In this edition:

• Food Security
• Agriculture and the environment - some facts and figures
• The Food Chain - facts and figures
• Local food
• And finally...

CountrysideUpdate_summer_10.doc

In this edition:

• Supplying local food to mainstream customers
• British seasonal fruit and veg
• Rural ageing workforce
• and finally...

CountrysideUpdate_spring_09.doc

• Sate of farming
• Bovine Tuberculosis - an insoluable problem?
• and finally...

In this edition:

• The great land use debate
• Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from rural land
• and finally...

CountrysideUpdate_spring_08.doc

• A snapshot of farming
• The state of the countryside
• A new disease threatened Britain’s livestock

In this edition:

• The Royal Show
• Great North Meet
• Population and migration
• Migrant workers
• Biodiversity
• Methane, cattle and climate change
• Ecotherapy

CountrysideUpdate_summer_07.doc

• Do we need intensive farming?
• Bio-refineries instead of oil refineries
• Should the UK produce more of its own food?

• Farmers and weather
• Farmers care for the landscape
• Wild bird populations

• New opportunities for food
• Is farming no place for wildlife?
• Affordable Housing in the countryside
• Carbon aware land management

Spring 2006

• delays farmers have had getting their EU support payments,
• likely impacts of climate change on farming and what farming can do to help to reduce global warming and
• cows, badgers and TB.

Winter 2005

This edition contains some key facts about rural England and explains why the profitability of farming is under pressure.