Search the LEAF Integrated Farm Management database for summaries and abstracts of key IFM research projects, conference notes, books, journals, farming press and a host of other sources. You can search by author, title, key words, browse alphabetically or by DEFRA's sustainable indicators.
1 - Agricultural assets and liabilities2 - Age of farmers3 - Percentage of holdings that are tenanted4 - EU Producer Support Estimate (PSE)5 - Payments to farmers for agri-environment purposes6 - Total income from farming7 - Average earnings of agricultural workers8 - Agricultural productivity9 - Agricultural employment10 - Adoption of farm management systems11 - Area converted to organic farming12 - Knowledge of Codes of Good Agricultural Practice13 - Pesticides in rivers14 - Pesticides in groundwater15 - Quantity of pesticide active ingredients used16 - Spray area treated with pesticides17 - Pesticide residues in food18 - Nitrate and phosphorus losses from agriculture19 - Phosphorus levels of agricultural topsoils20 - Manure management21 - Ammonia emissions from agriculture22 - Emissions of methane and nitrous oxide from agriculture23 - Direct energy consumption by farms24 - Trends in indirect energy inputs to agriculture25 - Use of water for irrigation26 - Organic matter content of agricultural topsoils27 - Accumulation of heavy metals in agricultural topsoils28 - Area of agricultural land29 - Change in land use from agriculture to hard development30 - Planting of non-food crops31 - Area of agricultural land under commitment to environmental conservation32 - Characteristic features of farmland33 - Area of cereal field margins under environmental management34 - Area of semi-natural grassland35 - Populations of key farmland birds