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Farm practices survey February 2022 - greenhouse gas mitigation practices

Results of the farm practices survey run in England in February 2022.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Published: 26 May 2022
• Last updated: 30 May 2022
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  1. 30 May 2022

     To correct an error in section 3, final paragraph on page 15 of the notice. Change of word, increase should read decrease, i.e. corrected to "64% in 2022, a decrease from 67% in 2021."

  2. 26 May 2022

     First published.

Applies to England

Documents

FPS - February 2022 - greenhouse gas mitigation - statistics notice

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FPS - February 2022 – greenhouse gas mitigation – dataset

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Details

The Farm Practices Survey (FPS) asks questions about how farming practices in England are affected by current agricultural and environmental issues. This publication gives the results of the FPS run in February 2022 that focused on practices relating to greenhouse gas mitigation. The main topics in this publication are:

• nutrient management
• anaerobic digestion
• emissions
• fertiliser, manure and slurry spreaders
• manure and slurry storage
• farm health planning and biosecurity
• grassland and grazing
• livestock feeding regimes and breeding practices

This release contains headline results for each section, the full breakdown of results, by region, farm type and farm size are shown in the dataset.

Previous year’s results can be found at Farm practices survey

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