Mrs. Helen Pearce

Job title

No longer working at ORC

Contact details

Email prefix: (add suffix @organicresearchcentre.com)
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Academic qualifications

B.A. (Hons): Natural Sciences, 2003-2006 (with specialisation in zoology: ecology and conservation) University of Cambridge

Main roles and responsibilities

Managing cereals trials at Wakelyns Agroforestry.
Managing ORC’s role in the Quoats project.

Research interests

My main research interests are in arable production, particularly regarding the use of diversity within cropping systems. Most of my current work is focused on wheat, but I am also interested in oat production, and in particular their valuable role in organic and low-input systems.

Selected publications

Jones, H., Clarke, S., Haigh, Z., Pearce, H. and Wolfe, M. (2010). The effect of the year of wheat variety release on productivity and stability of performance on two organic and two non-organic farms. Journal of Agricultural Science 148, 303-317. doi:10.1017/S0021859610000146.

Döring TF, Haigh Z, Pearce H, Pearce B, Jones H, Clarke S, Wolfe M. (2009). Variations on varieties: How reliably do wheat varieties perform under different organic farming conditions? Organic Farming 101: 42-43.

Haigh, Z. E. L., Baddeley, J. A., Boyd, H. E., Clarke, S., Jones, H., Rees, R. M. and Wolfe, M. (2008). Organic winter wheat: optimising planting. In: Proceedings of the 16th IFOAM Organic World Congress, Italy, pp558-561.

Clarke, S., Boyd, H., Haigh, Z.E.L., Jones, H., and Wolfe, M. (2008). Effects of husked oat varieties, variety mixtures and populations on disease levels, crop cover and their resulting yields. In: Proceedings of the 16th IFOAM Organic World Congress, Italy, pp410-413.

Jones, H., Boyd, H. E., Clarke, S., Haigh, Z. E. L. and Wolfe, M. (2008). Wheat populations: parental performance and stability in organic and non-organic environments. In: Proceedings of the 16th IFOAM Organic World Congress, Italy, pp680-683.

Wolfe, M., Boyd, H. E., Clarke, S., Haigh, Z. E. L. and. Jones, H. (2008). Wheat populations: population performance and stability in organic and non-organic environments. In: Proceedings of the 16th IFOAM Organic World Congress, Italy, pp676-679.