Opting for high-oxygen barrier (HOB) films instead of black plastic sheets has been shown to reduce silage clamp losses from 15% to 7%. This could go some way towards protecting farmers against rising ...

Recycling agricultural bags could divert up to 45,000 tonnes of single-use soft plastics from landfill each year. Many farmers either burn or bury plastic to avoid significant landfill costs. The farm ...

East Cambridgeshire company, Techneat Environmental, has begun offering the collection and processing of waste plastics. Material, mainly washed pesticide containers, along with fertiliser bags, ...

IFA Industrial Committee Chairman, Francis Fanning has urged farmers to back the waste farm plastics collection service by ensuring the silage sheeting and wrap they purchase includes the collection ...