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Soil health and dairy farming in the UK

Although healthy soil means more nutritious dairy products, modern intensive farming methods pollute and degrade the environment. However, a regenerative agriculture movement is kicking back against mainstream industrial farming.

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The white tears of Taranaki

Taranaki in Aotearoa, New Zealand, is home to the world’s largest dairy factory. Sarah Hopkinson questions the price paid by an area dominated by monoculture.

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Maria McKinney on ‘Sire’

All my grandparents were farmers; I grew up in the countryside surrounded by farms and helped neighbours herd sheep and cattle into the field. My body of work called ‘Sire’ looks at the genomics of modern cattle breeding.

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Farmland

Fruit and vegetables link our hungry bodies to the world of plants. Yet many of us have little understanding of the farming industry and the impact that bringing crops to our plates has on the planet.

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  • Farming: four farmyards. Engraving.
  • The facts : poultry farming / The Chickens' Lib Campaign, Animal Aid in association with The National Society Against Factory Farming.
  • The facts : poultry farming / The Chickens' Lib Campaign, Animal Aid in association with The National Society Against Factory Farming.
  • Farming: a reaping machine, driven by a horse. Engraving.
  • Life imprisonment : in the battery cage / Compassion in World Farming.
  • Life imprisonment : in the battery cage / Compassion in World Farming.
  • Farming: a patented steam-driven threshing machine. Wood engraving, 1862.
  • Farming: a reaping machine, driven by a horse. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1816.
  • Factory-farming of eggs. Engraving, 17--.
  • Factory-farming of eggs. Engraving, 17--.
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