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Calf: Improving Survival (PB3335)
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It is estimated that up to 6% of calves born die before they reach six months of age, at a cost to the industry of about 60 million per annum. This DEFRA document discusses Calf neonatal mortality and disease including both welfare and economic consequences. The advice in this booklet should be read in conjunction with the Code of Recommendations on the Welfare of Livestock: Cattle. Defra, PB 3335, June 2003.
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Campaign for the Farmed Environment (CFE)
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This leaflet introduces the Campaign for the Farmed Environment (CFE) that was launched on 5 November 2009. The Campaign will promote existing agri-environment schemes as well as additional voluntary measures, aimed at recapturing the environmental benefits of set-aside, such as protecting farmland birds, wildlife, natural resources and water quality. Campaign for the Farmed Environment, October 2009.
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Campaign for the Farmed Environment (CFE): A farmer's guide to voluntary measures
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This guide explains more about the Campaign for the Farmed Environment (CFE), and how you can take part and record what you do in terms of voluntary management. This guide focuses on the Campaign’s 15 voluntary measures. It explains the specific management needed for each measure and includes a single-sided form (which you can find at the back of this booklet) to record the area and type of voluntary measures carried out on your farm for the next three years of the Campaign. Campaign for the Farmed Environment, December 2009.
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Canada Geese - A Guide to Legal Control Measures
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Canada geese are not native to the United Kingdom but their distribution is now widespread. The increased numbers are causing problems. This leaflet explains the background, the problem and legal obligations. Prepared by BASC with the approval of Defra, based on information prepared by the Department of the Environment Canada Goose Working Group, revised June 2004.
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CAP Reform - Summary Document
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The deal agreed by the EU Agriculture Council on 26 June represents a real shift in agricultural policy. It will provide a more sustainable basis for European agriculture and reflect the wider environmental and rural development objectives which society seeks to achieve. This brief note summarises the Commissions January draft of the legislation. Defra, June 2003.
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CAP Reform: A Vision for the Common Agricultural Policy
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This document sets out a vision for the future of the European UnionÂ’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Its aim is to stimulate and help inform debate. The vision in this paper focuses on where we need to be in 10 to 15 years time, and why. Defra and HM Treasury, ISBN 1-84532-111-1, December 2005.
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CAP: An introduction to the new Common Agricultural Policy schemes in England (CAPLF001)
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This leaflet provides an introduction to the new 2015 CAP schemes, and an overview of what they will mean for you. The leaflet includes: some details of the Basic Payment Scheme, the greening rules and young farmers payment; an overview of the new Rural Development Programme; a timetable over which the new schemes will be introduced; and an introduction to the new online service. Defra, CAPLF001, April 2014
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CAP: Greening: Work out what it means for you (CAPLF002)
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Guidance on greening under CAP Reform: a leaflet and a list of crops to help you work out what you need to do to meet the greening rules. This document has been superseded by the CAP Reform update leaflet published on 14 August 2014. Defra, CAPLF002, June 2014.
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CAP: The new Common Agricultural Policy schemes in England: August 2014 update - including Greening: how it works in practice (CAPLF003)
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Latest information about new CAP schemes in England, including more detail about greening, crop diversification and Ecological Focus Areas. Defra, CAPLF003, August 2014.
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Carbon Calculators Directory
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The ADLib document provides a brief overview of some of the main carbon calculators that are currently available. ADLib, Last updated: 19 July 2013.
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Carbon Footprint: Guide to PAS 2050. How to assess the carbon footprint of goods and services
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'Carbon footprint' is a term used to describe the amount of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by a particular activity or entity, and thus a way for organisations and individuals to assess their contribution to climate change. Understanding these emissions, and where they come from, is necessary in order to reduce them. In the past, companies wanting to measure their carbon footprints have focused on their own emissions, but now they are increasingly
concerned with emissions across their entire supply chain. This guide explains how to assess GHG emissions of an individual product, either a good or a service, across its entire life cycle - from raw materials through all stages of production (or service provision), distribution, use and disposal/recycling - in accordance with the method specified in the BSI Publicly Available Specification 2050:2008, or 'PAS 2050'. Defra, Carbon Trust & BSI, ISBN 978-0-580-64636-2, 2008.
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Carbon Footprints in the Supply Chain: Next Steps for Business
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Energy efficiency has succeeded, and will continue to succeed, in delivering valuable carbon and cost savings for business. This leaflet presents a new practical approach to reduce the carbon emissions in the products we all consume, by understanding and optimising emissions across full product supply chains. The Carbon Trust, 2006.
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Carbon storage by habitat: Review of the evidence of the impacts of management decisions and condition of carbon stores and sources (RIN043 & NERR043)
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Terrestrial and marine managers can mitigate climate change by adopting practices which promote carbon storage and reduce emissions while enhancing the biodiversity value of ecosystems. Human activities are having a direct and indirect impact on the global carbon cycle and the capacity of ecosystems to sequester and store CO2 is decreasing through, for example, deforestation. Meanwhile, we continue producing significant greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by burning fossil fuels. Despite some improvements, agriculture is still the second largest source of greenhouse gases in the UK. Carbon storage by marine and coastal habitats has been less studied than terrestrial stores, but recent evidence indicates that they may be of comparable importance. The aims of this Natural England cross-cutting Evidence project were: to collate information and identify knowledge gaps on carbon stocks (both in vegetation and soils) for important terrestrial, coastal and marine habitats in England; and to determine how different management options may impact on sequestration or loss of carbon by habitat. Natural England, RIN043 & NERR043, 29 May 2012.
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Carcass Classification
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Classification is a means of describing beef and sheep carcasses in terms that indicate the suitability and value of a carcass for a particular end usage. The main elements of the schemes, which are similar for beef and sheep, are weight, conformation and fatness. Defra, IGER, ADAS and the University of Bristol under the Defra funded Livestock Knowledge Transfer Initatitve, Leaflet 314, 2001.
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Carriage of Passengers on Farm Trailers (HSE AIS36)
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This information sheet is aimed at anyone who uses a trailer to move people around on a farm and sets out the features, related to the circumstances of use, a trailer should have if it is used for carrying passengers. HSE, AIS36, 2005.
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