Shock at low levels of poultry welfare
A new Defra –funded, Bristol University study says one in four battery-reared chickens has difficulty walking.
Every little helps…apparently
Finally supermarkets are properly investigated
New flu threat emerges
This week The Times reported the findings of work in the United States on avian influenza which shows that in addition to the H5N1 strain, a few H7 strains of the virus have also started to evolve some of the traits they would need to infect people easily.
New wave of livestock disease
Paul van Aarle of Intervet says that after Bluetongue, we can expect to see Rift Valley Fever and West Nile-virus arriving in Europe before long.
Fixing fertility building
The development of a complex legume based mixture for better fertility building is to become a reality in a new project, led by the Organic Research Centre, Elm Farm. The mixture will be designed to optimise the transfer of nitrogen from the fertility building ley to the subsequent crops in the rotation.
All change please
We are living in a changing world. Organic farmers, along with all farmers across the globe, are operating within a new order of global warming and apparent food shortage.
Global warming - it's us
It’s official – scientists are now able to say with some certainty that the global climate change, observed over the past four decades, is not the result of natural phenomena. It is man made.
Organic boost from expensive oil
New report forecasts rising profits for UK organic arable