The Yorkshire Water Sustainable Landscapes programme supports farmers across Yorkshire on their journey towards a more sustainable future.
The Anglian Water Sustainable Landscapes Programme is focused on an increasingly important catchment area in North Lincolnshire.
A collaborative landscape-based programme in partnership with utility companies and supply chain operators.
The Sustainable Landscapes programme, launched in July 2018, brings together groups of forward-thinking arable farmers to explore sustainable farming practices that positively benefit soil health, improve water quality and provide a route to reducing emissions and sequestrating atmospheric carbon.
To maximise the impact of our activities, Sustainable Landscapes has always had a whole farm approach to sustainability.
Paul Speight, Hydrologist, Yorkshire Water
“Future Foods Solutions, through the Sustainable Landscapes Programme have been pivotal in delivering cultural change in farming practices. Their approach of demonstrating real world benefit to farm businesses through meaningful engagement and support, is enabling the improvement we are looking for in some of our most sensitive catchments.”
Working across the whole rotation as production moves from one crop to another from year to year developing farming techniques that improve soil quality and structure, at the same time improving water quality, biodiversity.
These techniques not only can improve soil fertility reducing the crop’s fertiliser requirements but can also hold water up in the soil organic matter, reducing the impact of drought as well as helping with flood attenuation and reducing soil erosion.
To improve soil organic matter, through the programme farmers will look to grow cover crops to capture any residual nutrients left in the soil from the previous crop.
This will reduce the potential for over winter leaching into the aquifers, and reduce the next year’s fertiliser requirement. These cover crops also draw down CO2 from the atmosphere help to sequestrate carbon.
Improve soil structure to prevent soil erosion and flooding
Introduce new farming methods that create co-benefits for farm profitability
Building soil health to reduce nitrogen leaching
Landscape wide effectiveness that benefits all stakeholders
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