Managing the soft verge landscape around the motorway network presents opportunities as well as challenges to the bodies responsible for maintenance. Any vegetation management produces biomass that has hitherto presented disposal issues and consequentially such operations have been kept to a minimum. Over the...
The team from Lincolnshire Verge Harvesting Ltd can be seen putting their UK designed and built verge harvester through its paces on the BBC’s flagship rural current affairs programme. See how Matt Taylor gets on as he tries his hand at operating the harvester under...
The project on converting ‘verge grass to biogas’ has advanced to the next scale of verge harvesting research and development. In 2017 Lincolnshire County Council secured a grant to design and build a UK specific prototype verge harvester and to test aspects of the...
The 2017 report by the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has just highlighted a worrying increase in the risk posed to many of the priorities of the government’s National Adaptation programme because “opportunities for modest, timely intervention to avoid long term problems...
‘Overly dry weather’ to prompt hefty drop in world grains harvest – IGC “Overly dry weather” has left the world on track for its steepest drop in grains output in at least a decade, the International Grains Council said, flagging “particular concerns” over...
India’s response to the recent Paris Agreement to address climate change and global warming includes a pledge of £4.77 billion to reforest 95 million hectares of the country – which equates to around 12% – by 2030. That is huge undertaking but, with time...
Smoke and flames rise from a fire in the village of Podstrana, near the Adriatic coastal town of Split on July 18, 2017 – AFP Read more at http://www.thestar.com.my/news/world/2017/07/18/fires-rage-on-adriatic-coast/#UuH4sx2OSsFCasb8.99 https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2017/jun/18/portugal-wildfires-in-pictures#img-12 So far this summer Spain has experienced a record breaking 47C whilst...
Peakhill Associates Ltd’s leading role in demonstrating the potential for verge biomass as a significant feedstock for Anaerobic Digestion was recognised at the 2017 ADBA World Biogas EXPO. Peakhill Associates was short listed in the International Research Category alongside entries from Germany and Spain....
This scene is becoming increasingly rare because road verges are no longer managed in the traditional way by grazing livestock or taking hay in the autumn to feed them through the winter. Today there is less livestock in many of our arable landscapes...
Every day many of us travel past a possible source of renewable energy that, if used properly, could also enhance Lincolnshire’s landscape and avoid taking land out of food production. SUSTAIN Lincolnshire is supporting a project to find out if the grass that is...
Biomass can have a significant role to play within the carbon reduction strategy of the UK. A recent report (Link) from the Energy Technology Institute (ETI) has suggested that appropriate biomass supply chains could supply up to 10% of the UK bioenergy by 2050....
Peakhill Associates was retained by the Lincolnshire Agricultural Society in 2003 to assess the possibility of accessing funds for a feasibility study into the development of a new focus for the Society and the Lincolnshire Showground. PA assembled a funding package involving European Regional...
Peakhill Associates worked with the Driffield Agricultural Society on the delivery of a energy efficient low carbon meeting place based upon bio-renewable materials including timber, straw, hemp and lime. Many of these materials are capable of being produced locally would demonstrate some of the...
In 2002 Peakhill Associates presented to emda a proposal for a regional showcase for local and specialist food producers. PA was subsequently commissioned by emda to carry out the feasibility assessment and full research for the project. PA’s approach was to work with the...
Business resilience in a changing climate, EPIC Centre, Lincolnshire Showground Thursday March 7th 2013 The weather in 2012 seems to have broken more records than many can remember. From droughts in America and Brazil, wild fires in Australia, ice melt in the...