Farm Gate

Farm Gate Leaders - Episode 3 - ffinlo Costain (editor, 8point9.com) is joined by the film-maker and self-described “wrangler of scientists”, Peter Byck, who's also a professor of practice at Arizona State University.Byck is the director and producer of Carbon Cowboys and Roots So Deep, and before that, Carbon Nation. He has a gift for storytelling; for breaking down complex science and giving it a human face. His big passion is adaptive multi-paddock (AMP) grazing and his films are hugely influential.LINKS:Roots So Deep: https://rootssodeep.org/Carbon Cowboys: https://carboncowboys.org/8point9.com: https://8point9.com/Farm Gate is part of 8point9.com, the land use news channel, which is sponsored by First Milk, Pelican Ag, Rural Solutions, the Usk Catchment Partnership, Agrolo and individual donors.#@8point9 #peterbyck #carboncowboys #AMPGrazing #Regenag #regenfarming #cattle #cattlefarming

Reports indicate that funding for nature-friendly farming in England is due to be slashed in the UK spending review, taking place on the 11th of June.What's likely to happen? What does it mean? And what can farmers do about it?ffinlo Costain is joined by Martin Lines, Chief Executive of the Nature Friendly Farming Network - by Julia Aglionby, Executive Director of the Foundation for Common Land and Professor of Practice at University of Cumbria - and by Joe Stanley, farming commentator, Wheat from the Chaff co-host and Head of Sustainable Farming, at the GWCT Allerton Project.

ffinlo Costain (8point9.com) and Joe Stanley (GWCT Allerton Project) discuss:Net zero reports from The Tony Blair Institute and the AFN Network+UK climate change preparednessUK Government 'retakes' the decision to scrap SFI 2024Anaerobic digestionAnd those reports - by FAI and SFT - that were damned by Monbiot.

This is the final programme in our Filling The Funding Gap series - and I'm investigating the role of insurance. We'll look at how extreme weather is driving farm losses and ask what can be done to mitigate the risks - and we'll consider the role of insurance in supporting different kinds of natural capital market.ffinlo Costain is joined by Rory Gibson, regional director for Howden Insurance in Perth in Scotland.Farm Gate's Filling the Funding Gap series, is sponsored by Barclays, Environment Bank, Forest Carbon, Howden Insurance, Regenerate and Saffery.Farm Gate is part of 8point9.com

Whether a farmer wants to continue working exclusively to produce food, or plans to integrate natural capital income streams within their business, access to finance for investment may be needed. We ask how farmers and other land managers can benefit from access to finance - what that finance might be used to fund - how to get it - and what strings might be attached?ffinlo Costain speaks to - James Milne, the Regional Head of Barclays Agriculture in Central and Eastern England - and Emma Toovey, Chief Land and Nature Officer at Environment Bank. This is the tenth episode in Farm Gate's Filling the Funding Gap series, sponsored by Barclays, Environment Bank, Forest Carbon, Howden Insurance, Regenerate and Saffery.

George Monbiot - the Guardian columnist with a penchant for lab-based protein and a farm-free future - recently wrote a scathing article damning two important livestock reports. The first was a report into three years of research into AMP grazing from FAI Farms, the Oxfordshire-based farm and food system consultancy - the second, Grazing Livestock, was by the Sustainable Food Trust.ffinlo Costain talks to Karl Williams, a director of FAI, and Science and Technical Lead, Amanda Deakin - and to Patrick Holden, chief Executive of the Sustainable Food Trust, and Senior Research Manager, Robert Barbour.Read the reports at 8point9.com:FAI AMP report: https://8point9.com/emissions-completely-offset-by-sequestration-in-mcdonalds-fai-amp-grazing-project-2/SFT Grazing Livestock report: https://8point9.com/new-report-aims-to-flip-the-script-on-meat-and-dairy/

It's a very long time since bears, wolves and lynx hunted freely across the Scottish landscape - but the reintroduction of these large carnivores has been a topic of noisy debate pretty much since I can remember. Today, we're asking whether Scotland can make room for the lynx. Hugh Webster from Scotland: The Big Picture believes that integration is possible - while Cora Cooper, an Ayrshire sheep farmer, shares the concerns of many in her industry.For more land use stories, please visit https://8point9.com/

In this programme we discuss ways in which tenant farmers can take advantage of natural capital income streams - as well addressing some of the barriers and challenges to market entry.ffinlo Costain is joined by George Dunn, Chief Executive of the Tenant Farmers' Association - and by Lucy Jenner, a director at Savills, and Head of their Natural Capital Consultancy. This is the ninth episode in our series: Filling the Funding Gap, in which we discuss how natural capital markets can help farmers transition towards resilient and regenerative food production.Filling the Funding Gap is sponsored by Barclays, Environment Bank, Forest Carbon, Howden Insurance Brokers, Regenerate and Saffery.

ffinlo Costain (8point9.com) and Joe Stanley (GWCT Allerton Project) discuss:The UK Government’s farm profitability reviewThe UK Nature Market AcceleratorThe importance of historic maps Restoring farmland in UkraineAnd a report by anonymous whistleblowers, calling for investor and creditor action to address the nature crisis.

8point9 editor, ffinlo Costain, is joined by Tim Coates, a co-founder of Oxbury Bank, which launched in 2021 as the only UK bank dedicated exclusively to the rural economy. In Farm Gate Leaders, ffinlo talks to someone who's played a defining role in our food and farming system - someone who's helping to deliver lasting and progressive change.