Biodiversity, Agriculture, Soil & Environment
As we are unable to currently hold farm walks, here is a short comment on one of the BASE trial fields which is on Stephen Goodwin’s farm in Northamptonshire: Stephen says: “This is the BASE trial field. Direct drilled on Continue Reading
Guy Leonard kindly invited members to a farm walk on 16th May 2019 – here is his report: We had great weather in Holderness on the evening of 16th May when approximately 20 BASE members gave up their time to Continue Reading
On Wednesday 3rd July 2019, our members were invited to visit the Lamport Trial site once again as a follow up to the trip in April. This was an early start, arriving at 8 am but happily, with the promise Continue Reading
A small group of BASE-UK members took to road and air to travel to Denmark and Jock McFarlane, one of those intrepid “flying farmers” has written the following article. Our grateful thanks go to everyone who hosted our members – Continue Reading
David White writes: On the afternoon of Friday 12th April, a small group of members met at the farm of John and William Cooper near Loth, Lincolnshire. Another dry cold day for a farm walk but that didn’t curtail the Continue Reading
Doug has sent the following report: BASE Meeting 26th February 2019. Durie Farm, Leven, Fife. Present: Steve Townsend-BASE-UK Dr. Henry Creissen-SRUC Farmers present:Doug Christie (Host farmer), Sandy Allison, Alan Smith, Robert Watson & Guest, Gregory Hart, Euan Walker Munro, Jock Continue Reading
BASE UK French Farm Tour 6th to 8th November 2018. David White arranged for BASE-UK members to take a trip to France as a follow up on Victor Leforestier’s AGM presentation and 6 members took up the opportunity. David has Continue Reading
David White of Hawk Mill Farm, Cambridgeshire hosted a BASE-UK member farm walk and writes: “Pinch, punch, first of the month and its my BASE-UK farm walk, and its raining, and my RTK office/meeting room on the farm was double Continue Reading
Angus Gowthorpe – BASE-UK Member, who was recently awarded second place in the Soil Farmer of the Year 2018 competition held by the Farm Carbon Cutting Toolkit held a farm walk on the 3rd July 2018 at Approach Farm which organised Continue Reading
BASE UK held a trip to Scotland on 30th and 31st October 2017 to visit some of their members’ farms. This is a report from Jock McFarlane. I heard about the Scottish trip through my neighbour Ben Barron who forwarded Continue Reading