Category: Research

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Initial results from test baking of the composite cross populations show that the populations perform consistently between organic and conventional systems, unlike a mixture and a conventionally-bred variety which do well in non-organic but not organic systems

Cabinet Office report says proper food policy could save 70,000 lives a year

Is the UK organic sector defying food industry and media sceptics who’ve predicted that the organics and fair trade sectors will be the first to be hit by the credit crunch? And whose figures on the size of the UK organic retail market should we believe anyway?

A new Defra –funded, Bristol University study says one in four battery-reared chickens has difficulty walking.

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.

Full details of ORC arable events 2008

A new, independent report, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, has concluded that the majority of bovine tuberculosis spread in high-risk areas is a result of badger-to-cattle interaction.

Cash for farmers to leave land uncultivated as wildlife habitat (set-aside) in on its way back into UK farm policy

MPs say biofuels are no solution

Exeter Univ shopping study

A call for real organic poultry – produced with ethics, principles and adherence to proper organic standards

King report says badgers should be culled to control spread of TB in cattle

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Employment Application Form 2007

There can be no doubt that the state of our planet’s environment, the health; the economic and social plight of peoples in all parts of the world is far more parlous than it was 25 years ago. The warning from the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Board in their 2005 report puts it succinctly…

Bluetongue in Suffolk declared outbreak by Defra vets

Pesticide catastrophed in Caribbean

Global meat production heightens global disease risk, says FAO.

Doing the job properly is a new publication from The Organic Research Centre

It’s all rather circular – farms both produce and consume energy. Much recent attention has been focused on farm-sourced biofuels, but a recent Soil Association conference reminded us that farms themselves are major energy consumers.

Back in eighteenth century Europe, a man called Tozzetti noted that black stem rust disease of wheat was worse in fields where barberry…