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Sustainable farming is vital for wildlife

Talk of rewilding and corridors for insects is all well and good, but what we do with our farmland is more important Mark Measures' (ORC Senior Adviser) letter addressing the need for integrating wildlife management…
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Agroforestry, Agroecology and Organic Farming in the Ag Bill

Agriculture Bill debates on Agroecology, Agroforestry, Organic farming and Soil Health in the House of Lords The Agriculture Bill is currently going through the Committee Stage in the House of Lords. Debates on the 9th…
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Farming Opportunity

The Perdix Partnership have a client who is looking to start a joint venture on his 800 acres farm in Warwickshire UK, it has been a arable farm intensively farmed for many years but he…
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Environmental Land Management: consultation reopens

Make your voice heard on Defra's new proposals for Environmental Land Management Defra have reopened the Environmental Land Management (ELM) Policy Discussion Document (PDD) on CitizenSpace. The PDD sets out Defra's initial thinking for ELM…
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Benefits and challenges of herbal or diverse leys

Opportunities for farmer involvement

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The importance of our local sheep breeds

How do we encourage people to value heritage breeds?

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New resources from OK-Net Ecofeed

New Practice Abstracts and videos

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GM wheat trial fails

Wheat trial failure confirms folly of GM’s sticking plaster approach

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Living mulches: The holy grail of no till?

Field lab featured on BBC Farming Today

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Are organic options being side-lined by Defra?

Is the government ignoring the value of ‘public goods’ in organic farming?

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UK pesticide standards could be slashed in new trade deals

Threat to public health and the environment

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Mycorrhiza as green alternative for mineral fertilisers

German Operational Group investigates effective application of Mycorrhiza in the field

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Share your views about Organic Farm Knowledge!

Do you know the online platform Organic Farm Knowledge? We would like to hear from you what you think about it!

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Farming for nature pays off for organic Wimpole

Nature and soil health are flourishing at the National Trust’s organic farm

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Farmer and growers - what soil inputs do you use?

Survey as part of the Woodchip for fertile soils project

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USA farm antibiotic use: a threat to UK standards?

US livestock receive more than five times as many antibiotics as British livestock

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Innovative network for promoting pulses as novel protein sources

Case study of the British fava bean food value chain

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iSAGE Toolbox - How to design it step by step

Safeguard farmers’ decision making tool

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EU targets 25% organic land in Europe by 2030

EU Biodiversity andFarm to Fork strategies unveiled

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Alternative approaches for livestock health

Participate in Whole Health Agriculture’s 2020 survey and prize draw

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Intercropping and Companion Cropping in Arable Systems

Field lab report from 2019 trials

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The Spring Bulletin No.131 is out!

The Winter issue now available for free download

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Do you know your beans?

Bean farmers needed!

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Richard Sanders

Former ORC employee dies

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