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Research Webinar: Diversifying our approach to cereal breeding with plant populations

Watch this ORC webinar for an overview of current research on plant populations, what this approach can offer, what we still need to understand and how we might get policy-makers to support wider use of such genetically diverse cereals.

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Farewell and thanks to Roger Kerr

We say a heartfelt thanks to Roger Kerr, who has stepped down as an ORC trustee, for all his time and hard work over the last four years and continued support of the ORC. We…
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North of England Agroforestry Living Lab

The Organic Research Centre and the EU Horizon Europe-funded REFOREST project are looking for agroforestry farmers and stakeholders to be part of the North of England Living Lab.

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Scientific study shows synthetic pesticides significantly more dangerous than natural ones

More organic farming means less pesticide use and risk

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The Scottish Real Bread Festival 2023

Come to Bowhouse for a brand new festival celebrating all things Real Bread, packed with workshops, talks, hands-on activity and the results of the 2023 Scottish Bread Championship.

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European organic farmland and market continued to grow in 2021

Increasing by almost 4%, the European organic market reached another high in 2021: 54.5 billion euros. Organic farmland expanded by almost 0.8 m ha.

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Diversifying our approach to cereal breeding with plant populations

This webinar aims to give an overview of current research on plant populations, what this approach can offer, what we still need to understand and how we might get policymakers to support wider use of such genetically diverse cereals.

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Organic Hop Varieties field lab two year report

The Second year of results from the organic hops field lab are now available to read. This field lab aims to help organic and low-input hop growers find suitable varieties of hops for organic farming. 

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Organic market delivers strong performance in exceptionally challenging year

UK organic market shows positive and robust growth of 1.6% in 2022 topping £3.1 billion in an unprecedented and challenging year for business and consumers

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ORFC in the Field: Biodynamics and Permaculture Design at Huxhams Cross Farm

Come and join leading practitioners for two days of hands-on workshops that explore how biodynamic principles and practice and permaculture design can be used at farm scale, and combined to create resilient, productive, financially viable farms that support biodiversity and serve the wider community.

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RAMIRAN Conference

The theme of the RAMIRAN Conference for 2023 is ‘managing organic resources in a changing environment’. RAMIRAN is inviting research abstracts relating to the use of organic materials, from theory to implementation and adoption by stakeholders.

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Study on the environmental impacts of achieving 25% organic land in the EU by 2030 published

The study shows that achieving the EU 25% organic farming by 2030 target could make a big difference to the environmental impacts of agriculture.

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Agroforestry Open Weekend 2023

The Agroforestry Open Weekend is back in 2023 – May 19th to 21st – and it’s bigger than ever, with more than 35 farms taking part from the UK, Ireland and beyond!

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Scottish Organic Cereals Network farm visit: North Berwick

On-farm event looking at Angus MacDowall's stockless organic cropping, and his on-farm flour mill enterprise. Open to all Scottish organic farmers or those that are looking to convert to organic, free to attend.
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Market opportunities & technical challenges for organic seed producers

This is a webinar led by the EU Horizon Europe LIVESEEDING project. The aim of the workshop is to detect techno-economic challenges that organic seed producers currently face.

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BIOFACH – World´s Leading Trade Fair for Organic Food

BIOFACH in Nuremberg is the place where people share their passionate interest in organic food, get to know each other and exchange views.

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Conversation beneath the trees

Conversation Beneath The Trees is a podcast bringing together scientists, farmers and innovators from all around Ireland to share their ideas and experiences of farming with trees.

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Regen Action

In the 3rd week of January, Regen Action took place in London. Kathrin Heimbach reports on the discussions.

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Living mulches: get involved!

Would you like to be involved in an on-farm field trial exploring living mulches: direct drilling cash crops into (semi)-permanent established stands of clover?

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Agroforestry in England: policies, land ownership and a just transition

Join us for AGROMIX workshop on Agroforestry land use policies in England!

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Yorkshire Grain Changers unite!

ORC, through the Organic at the Heart project, helped to deliver the Grain Changers event in York on the 23rd October 2022.

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Reducing artificial inputs

At this years Agronomists’ Conference on December 6th ORC’s Henny Lowth gave a presentation on ‘Reducing artificial inputs’ which covered ORC’s work on living mulches in the Innovative Farmers field lab sponsored by AHDB, and the LiveWheat project.

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Silvopasture benefits for livestock

This Farm Wilder webinar looked at the many benefits trees can bring to livestock systems, with ORC’s Lindsay Whistance

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URGENT: Stop the attack on children’s health

Do you want Government to delay laws to protect your children from junk food advertising by almost three years? We don’t.

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