Defra's Expert Group on Organic Production (EGOP) seeks a Chair
Defra are recruiting a chairperson for their Expert Group on Organic Production
Farmer-led research gets Royal backing
The Duke of Cornwall joined 150 people in Cornwall on Tuesday 19 July as they celebrated a “remarkable” 10 years of farmer-led research with the Innovative Farmers network.
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.
“ 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.
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
Positive Food Futures
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
Thank you! Appeal success!
We would like to thank everybody who supported our Climate Friendly Farming appeal
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
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.
#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
Making Agroforestry happen in England
Are you farming in England? Have your voice heard on agroforestry! This short survey will help us target relevant information on agroforestry to the right farmers and make agroforestry really happen in England.
OF&G push for policy recognition with launch of organic manifesto
OF&G (Organic Farmers & Growers) has published its manifesto ‘Championing organic within agricultural policy’ to highlight the key advantages of the organic approach in response to the unprecedented transitional upheaval in the farming sector.
BBC Countryfile on 'regenerative farming'
In the latest episode of BBC one’s flagship countryside programme Countryfile, they cover the potential for regenerative farming in the UK.
Ecosystem service indicator survey
Help us to identify indicators that can capture the provisioning of ecosystem services by farming systems, in particular those with a focus on biodiversity, human nutrition and social well-being.
Including diverse leys in arable rotations
Pasture-fed production: Findings from the SEEGSLIP project
