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A call for real organic poultry – produced with ethics, principles and adherence to proper organic standards
The world’s first organic cod farm, run by Johnson Seafarms just off Shetland, is in crisis. The firm has been put into administration with its directors sacked after they allegedly ran up debts totalling £40 million in the last two years.
The Anderson Report into last summer’s FMD outbreak in Surrey is a whitewash
Wild birds blamed for Diss avian flu outbreak
Trade issues derail livestock vaccination
An ORC briefing on the evidence for enhanced nutritional quality of organic foods
Full programme for ORC conference now available
Newcastle University thumbs up for organic food quality
King report says badgers should be culled to control spread of TB in cattle
It’s here again. After the successful re-introduction of the Cirencester producer conference in December 2006, the Organic Research Centre-Elm Farm is pleased to announce that the second conference in the series is confirmed. It will take place at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester over two days starting at lunchtime on Monday 10th December.
Employment application form
Employment Application Form 2007
Agricultural biodiversity is under threat again.
GM Freeze in consultation plea. Let’s have some proper thought on GM contamination in the EU.
On being organic and “anti-normal”
Grabbing back control – The Cirencester Conference 2006
Not too late to protect the future – the organic role
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.