Research digests

Browse through our special 40th anniversary research abstracts

• Diversifying wheat in organic farming

  Opportunities to include underutilised wheat species in organic crop rotations

• Intercropping pulses and cereals

  Experiences from research and practice

• Using subsidiary crops to optimal effect

  An online toolbox for cover crops and living mulches

• Productive hedges

  Bringing hedges back into the farm business

• Tree-crop interactions

  Maximising productivity and public goods with tree-crop alleys

• Browse and tree fodder

  Nutritional benefits for livestock

• Multispecies leys

  Selection and management to support pollinators

• Fertility building leys for crop production

  Using legume-based mixtures to enhance nitrogen use efficiency

• Measuring and monitoring soil health

  Practical advice for soil husbandry

• The development and application of ORC’s Public Goods Tool over the years

  Assessing public good delivery and sustainability on farm

• Sageguard - the farmer's decision maker

  From a generic concept to a target-oriented design

• Using woodchip to build soil health

  Sustainable application and economics

• Distribution of the added value in the organic food chain

• Potential market opportunities for mixed farming and agroforestry

  Characteristics of successful value chain network

• Organic trade data in the UK

  Evaluating different approaches for implementing organic trade data collection

• Wheat breeding assessed for organics

  An experiment with different tillage systems

• Breeding for integrated weed management

• Organic vegetable transplant production

  Meeting the industries needs: from substrate to spacing

• Agricology

  Practical Sustainable Farming Knowledge Hub

• Ensuring research relevance through participation

  Participatory research: whatever you think, think again

• From field to fork

  Multidisciplinary research along the whole food chain

• Resilience and sustainability in sheep and goat farming

• Environmental performance & animal welfare in organic poultry production

• Sustainable Organic and Low-Input Dairying

• Agroforests as habitat

  The importance of agroforestry for biodiversity

• Land Equivalent Ratio modelling at Wakelyns

  More yield from the same space through intercropping

• The silvopastoral trial at Elm Farm

  Agroforestry for integrated livestock and bioenergy production

• ORC led initiatives

  Organic Arable, Organic Seed Producers, OMSCo, OGA, Organic Resource Agency

• Organic advice and conversion

  OAS, OCIS and IOTA

• The Organic Principles

  The foundation of ORC’s work and the organic movement