R.Higgins 14th January 2019 Articles, Latest News animal rights, compassion in world farming, efficient land use, sustainability, vegan diet, veganism
Articles
Ammonia Emissions from Slurry
Prof Keth Goulding of Rothamsted is featured here on the addition of sulphuric acid to reduce ammonia emission in slurry I have presented to the top five soil scientists at Rothamsted, who included Professor Keith Goulding, about the Howard technique…
Read more
Warren Buffet donates
Having written to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation about our Proposal to alleviate malnutrition in Africa with the HH-2 Horticultural System we received their reply and herein we are taking an excerpt of that reply and publish it…
Read more
Dame Judy Dench on trees – Mycorrhiza Fungi
BBC Today programme on the programme today of 12th December Dame Judy Dench is very keen on trees. The programme mentioned mycorrhiza fungi and that several universities have now done work on this networking fungus. It was Dr. Claire Rayner,…
Read more
Organic Farming not always good for environment
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/07/organic-farming-environment-lord-krebs Organic farming not always best for environment, says government adviser Lord Krebs claims that organic farming needs more land than conventional methods to produce the same yield At least 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions are thought to come…
Read more
Swansea University – pesticides
Pesticides week on Farming Today. Bio rational pesticides. Discussion on this subject goes up to 3.50 minutes only. Professor Tarrick Butt: biological microbial agents like fungi, but there are new ways of deploying these agents. One strategy is lure and…
Read more
No Dig Veg – increases production
The HH-2 Horticultural System means no digging of the soil. No Chemicals added and Pests and Disease are brought to an absolute minimum. This is the opposite to conventional agriculture that ploughs the land and applies many chemicals. The…
Read more
Potato Cyst Nematodes
BBC Radio 4 Farming Today broadcast of 15th March, 2017 Potato Cyst Nematodes I called Dr. Buggs, the head of research at Kew Gardens 20th March. He commented on my suggestion that such a disease can be cured by soil…
Read more
BBC Farming Today – The War on Plant Pests and Diseases
Potato blight and cabbage worm potato blight, cabbage worm, solution – HH-2 Horticultural system As western institutions are still spending heaps of money on research of how to deal with these things, we must be years ahead of such institutions…
Read more
Health giving soil and HH-2
We are receiving more and more enquiries about how to grow healthy food and the HH-2 The Howard-Higgins system, developed over many years, bears a food that is higher in nutritional benefits than conventionally grown food and even conventionally grown…
Read more