B&C Farming Ltd operates in some of the most picturesque areas in Norfolk, in close proximity to many significant environmental sites.

We believe that Farming and the Environment are symbiotic, therefore we are constantly trying to either reduce our impact on the environment or enhance it. This involves several practices and actions already in place:

• Solar panels on buildings
• Inverters on pumps and fans to improve energy efficiency
• Several hundreds of metres of underground irrigation mains to improve water and energy use efficiency
• 36m sprayer to reduce soil compaction and diesel usage
• Upgrade to forklift included move to electric from diesel to reduce emissions
• High grade fuel filters on diesel tanks

In addition to the steps already in place, the company is planning to implement or review the following:

• Convert all forklifts to electric when they are due to be upgraded
• Increase the amount of onsite renewables
• Review the opportunity for energy storage
• Reduce transport movement onsite by vehicle

Led by the requirements of our land owners, the business has also used its resources to complete a number of conservation and estate management projects.

• Habitat enhancement project which involved adding levies and shelves, and tree coppicing, on a section of stream which flows into the Wensum.
• Building winter storage reservoirs
• Planting hedgerows and woodlands

Bio-beds are lined holes in the ground used to catch agricultural chemicals spillages when the crop sprayer is filling up. The spill falls into the polyethylene lined container which contains straw, muck and soil, the microbes present in the bio-bed then break the chemical down to its safe constituents.

The team are sensitive to the needs of the pheasant and partridge shoot and are practiced at working around the requirements of a gamekeeper. We regularly plant game and cover crops.