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Farmers urged to capitalise on organic’s potential

Delegates at the UK’s largest organic conference, OF&G’s National Organic Combinable Crops (NOCC) heard how market opportunity, and increased recognition of organic’s benefits, should encourage increases in organic agricultural land area.

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“ I 💚 my soil” - Groundswell 2022 lived up to its motto

Loving soil wasn’t just this year’s Groundswell slogan, it was the topic, in depth and from the ground up, in practice and in theory, in detail, from a global and from a bird’s eye perspective. Marianne Landzettel blogs for ORC.

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ORC at Groundswell 2022

Watch videos of sessions with ORC involvement at Groundswell – The regenerative agriculture show and conference- held in Hertfordshire June 22nd 2022

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Positive Food Futures

Positive Food Futures is an exciting new programme from the Eden Project for young adults who have a keen interest in the future of food and farming, and how we can make these systems more…
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ORC says farewell to Dominic Amos

On the first of July we say goodbye to Senior Crops Researcher Dominic Amos after six and a half years at ORC.

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EURAF 2022: 6th European Agroforestry Conference

ORC was represented at the Sixth European Agroforestry Conference (EURAF 2022), which took place in Nuoro, Sardinia from 16-20th May 2022

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ORC Bulletin 136 on its way!

The Summer issue of the ORC Bulletin (136) has mailed out! The Spring 2022 issue (No.135) is now available for free download.

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BIOFACH 2022

BIOFACH – the World´s leading trade fair for organic food is back! The organic trade meets at the organic exhibition in Nuremberg, Germany and online from 26 – 29 July 2022.

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Innovative Farmers network day 2022

Come celebrate 10 years of making on-farm research a reality After a decade of hard work, the Innovative Farmers network has changed the face of agricultural innovation in the UK. Together with the support of…
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UK Government's Food Strategy published

Defra’s Food Strategy White Paper fails to acknowledge or address the breadth of issues facing the food system

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Janet Dwyer awarded OBE in Queen's Birthday Honours List

ORC Trustee Professor Janet Dwyer has been awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2022

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Are we finally rolling the agroforestry log over the crest of the hill?

This year’s face to face annual Farm Woodland Forum meeting focuses on the increased adoption and expansion of agroforestry in the UK and Ireland.

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We need system change not GM ketchup

GM tomato won’t address the problem of vitamin D deficiency because poor nutrition is a function of poverty and a broken food system says GM Freeze

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GM is not the answer

OF&G (Organic Farmers & Growers) has expressed serious concern over Defra’s introduction of their Genetic Technology Bill that received its first reading in Parliament today.

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Thank you! Appeal success!

We would like to thank everybody who supported our Climate Friendly Farming appeal

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The Land Skills Fair

The Land SKills Fair is LWA’s largest major gathering and will provide a space for upskilling for the agroecological transition as well as growing a diverse and people centred farming movement.

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ELM agroforestry standards design and validation workshops

Further to the 6 regional workshops run by the Agroforestry ELM Test team in late 2021-early 2022 that have already fed into the design process of agroforestry options for ELM, Defra have asked the team…
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Understanding diverse leys: establishment, persistence, carbon, economics

Are you a farmer or someone interested in the value of diverse/herbal leys and how best to manage them in a farming system? Come and visit Yatesbury House Farm where herbal leys have been used…
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EU Organic Movement calls for a systemic approach to carbon farming

IFOAM Organics Europe position paper on carbon farming. Finding synergies between climate action and biodiversity protection

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Stop Poison Poultry

Chicken is the UK’s favourite meat. We farm a billion birds each year. Almost all of them are housed in industrial units and fed a diet of imported soya.

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#AskAScientist Challenge

Join Agromix’s #AskAScientist Challenge to have your questions answered by a panel of expert scientists in an open live-streamed session within EURAF’s 6th European Agroforestry Conference

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ORC Climate Friendly Farming Campaign Launch 

22nd April is Earth Day 2022 – a global call to action while there is still time to solve the climate crisis.  Time to choose both a prosperous and sustainable future, and time to restore nature…
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Organics Europe Youth Event 2022

Organic and You(th): Together for sustainable food systems Organics Europe Youth Event in a nutshell The Organic Europe’s Youth Event (OEYE), taking place on 31 August-1 September in Frick, Switzerland, is an event for youth…
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UK Fibre Industry Unpicked: Could you grow your own clothes?

Join Emma Hague, Rosie Bristow and Sofi Thanhauser in this LWA webinar to discuss our fibre industry and what the future holds.

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