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Increased payment rates for organic farming brings opportunities as market grows
14th Feb 2022
Farmers who convert to organic will receive up to double the previous rates in a raft of government payment increases that are launching amid strong growth across the organic market. Payments for organic farming in…
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Agroforestry Open Weekend 2022
14th Feb 2022
Celebrating the growing global community of Agroforestry farms and farming. Following the success of the Anglian Agroforestry Open Weekend 2021, a number of farms will be participating in this weekend in 2022 giving opportunities to…
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Manual: Welfare and environmental impact of organic pig production. A review
11th Feb 2022
This recently published manual contains 29 factsheets created within the POWER project (part of Horizon 2020, CORE Organic Co-fund project). The manual is split into chapters with the factsheets presented under four major themes. The…
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A decade of field labs
9th Feb 2022
Now in its 10th year, the Innovative Farmers network is celebrating the success of more than 120 field labs that have placed farmers in the driving seat of agricultural research, with the network connected with…
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Use of Complementary and Alternative Methods is significantly reducing antibiotic use and vet costs on UK and Irish farms
28th Jan 2022
A survey of over 220 livestock farms (80% commercial) in the UK and Ireland has reported up to 69% reduction in antibiotic use, up to 70% reduction in vet costs, significant reduction in disease frequency…
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Integrating trees
27th Jan 2022
This Your Future Farming Webinar session will look at how you can integrate trees into your farming system including on farm woodland and hedgerow management and agroforestry. We'll also be looking at how to leverage…
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Agroforestry Policy Brief
27th Jan 2022
How can agroforestry contribute towards biodiversity conservation? The Policy Brief, written by Colin Tosh, is based on evidence presented in, and feedback to the online workshop held 20/10/2021. The key findings were: Agroforestry increases farmland…
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Defra: Multi-agency response to GM wheat trial 21/R52/01
27th Jan 2022
GM Freeze, ORC and twenty five other organisations have asked Defra not to allow the John Innes Centre to plant another open field trial of genetically modified wheat. Read the letter here
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2022 funding is now OPEN for applications to the Dean Organic Fund
27th Jan 2022
We are very pleased to announce that the third round of Dean Organic Fund (DOF) funding is now open, with up to £200,000 of interest-free loans available for small businesses. The Organic Research Centre (ORC)…
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DIY peat-free growing media
27th Jan 2022
Organic Growers Alliance webinar on how to create your own peat-free growing media for plant-raising. As growers we need to move away from using peat for propagation, but buying in can be expensive and not…
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