Organic Food Qualities
Newcastle University thumbs up for organic food quality
ORC Producer Conference
It’s here again. After the successful re-introduction of the Cirencester producer conference in December 2006, the Organic Research Centre-Elm Farm is pleased to announce that the second conference in the series is confirmed. It will take place at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester over two days starting at lunchtime on Monday 10th December.
GM Freeze in consultation plea
GM Freeze in consultation plea. Let’s have some proper thought on GM contamination in the EU.
GM crop policy farce
Defra stalls on coexistence policy for GM crops
How processed do you want your organic food?
Should processing and additives be applied to organic foods?
A Sense of Public Duty
A Sense of Public Duty – Thoughts on Compensation for Bernard Matthews
Let's stop bleating about the bushes
As climate change starts to bite, the advantages of agroforestry become increasingly obvious
Brussels takes pride in its new organic regulation
Brussels takes pride in its new organic regulation
Supermarkets bad - box schemes god
The real expense of supermarket veg
Not so bootiful now
What lessons has Bernard Matthews learned from the outbreak of H5N1 avian flu in his Suffolk turkeys.
Deforestation diesel - the madness of biofuels
How sustainable are biofuels? Politicians love them, conservationists have a different view.
Biofuels end cheap food
It’s official – biofuels are taking over as the main growth driver for agricultural demand. So says the world’s leading investment bank Goldman Sachs.
Boxing clever
How good are organic box schemes
Why not vaccinate?
German vets call for FMD preventive vaccination
Rome conference message
Rome conference says organic farming is the way to feed a hungry world running low on fossil fuels
David Astor Lecture
The first in a series of David Astor Memorial Lectures
Bluetongue vaccine on way
Defra to tender for Bluetongue vaccine
Standards,standards
The “organicness” of air freight and the suitability of modern livestock breeds such as Holstein cows and hybrid brioler chickens were two issues under the microscope at the Soil Association annual conference in Cardiff last weekend. Both issues are to be examined by the SA standards committee for a decsion to made “within the year”.
Bird flu in Hungary
First case of H5N1 Avian Flu logged in EU in Hungary in 2007
Supermarket study hints at market failure
Competition Commission publishes early findings of UK supermarket study. Some market failings identified.