As the world hurtles towards an ever warmer future, delegates to the conference busied themselves with debate on the business opportunities that climate change presents. Let’s make some money, they said, before it’s too late.
The time has come for preventive vaccination of UK outdoor poultry (Jan 2008)
The Government has accepted all 26 of the main recommendations made by Sir Iain Anderson on the response to the Surrey 2007 outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease
A thoughtful paper on GM science and policy
A look at on-going organic cereals projects
A boost in funding from Defra to help safeguard the nation’s bees and to deliver more research into their health has been announced by the Environment Secretary Hilary Benn
Following the quite heated discussions just prior to Christmas over the floated notion of “Organic Holidays” or “Organic Lay-bys” some clarification of the Organic Research Centre stance on the issue is perhaps necessary
An impressive gathering of farmers, producers and advisers (over 180 in total) assembled at the Organic Research Centre Producer Conference 2009 at Harper Adams University in Shropshire – January 6th and 7th – to discuss a range of technical and policy matters
MEPs have voted in the European Parliament to tighten the EU rules on pesticide use…
A national campaign for Real Bread in the UK has been launched by the environment alliance Sustain, of which the Organic Research Centre (ORC) is a member
SA looks at light touch regime for growers.
Natural England promotes FREE advice service.
PAN report on shocking levels of pesticide residue in EU food.
Comment from ORC on idea of organic holidays
New EU organic road map.
Some batches of organic oats being sold in the UK have been found to contain one or both of the pesticide ingredients chlormequat and glyphosate
The eighth edition of the Organic Farm Management Handbook comes out in challenging times
New calls for limits on livestock antibiotic use.
The QE2 Conference Centre in Westminster (November 12th 2008) saw over 130 delegates and speakers in hot debate about the failure of GM crop technology to deliver anything on the promises of twenty years ago. In stark contrast speaker after speaker pointed to agro-ecological approaches (including organic agriculture) as extremely attractive sustainable farming and food options, especially in a world fast running out of oil.
The introduction of biofuels into the UK transport and industry sectors should be slowed down, says a new report from the Government’s Renewable Fuels Agency (RFA).
ORC Organic Animal Health Colloquium
Brazilian farmers and traders launch non-GM crop body
