Category: News

The Autumn issue of the ORC Bulletin (137) has mailed out! The Summer 2022 issue (No.136) is now available for free download.

Calling UK dairy farmers! You are invited to take part in an online survey on summer mastitis in dairy cattle

Organic September is about celebrating everything organic and the hard work and dedication that goes into growing while working with nature, not against it.

Are you a leafy salad grower interested in trialling peat reduced options? Riverford and the Organic Research Centre are developing a new Innovative Farmers field lab

There are still places available for SRUC’s part-time post-graduate distance learning programme in Organic Farming for the 2022/2023 academic year, starting early September 2022.

The Soil Association, Woodland Trust, Finance Earth, Organic Research Centre and Scottish Rural College (SRUC) have been awarded funding from the Natural Environment Investment Readiness Fund to explore the feasibility of developing a carbon code for Agroforestry

Defra are recruiting a chairperson for their Expert Group on Organic Production

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.

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.

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.

Watch videos of sessions with ORC involvement at Groundswell – The regenerative agriculture show and conference- held in Hertfordshire June 22nd 2022

On the first of July we say goodbye to Senior Crops Researcher Dominic Amos after six and a half years at ORC.

ORC was represented at the Sixth European Agroforestry Conference (EURAF 2022), which took place in Nuoro, Sardinia from 16-20th May 2022

The Summer issue of the ORC Bulletin (136) has mailed out! The Spring 2022 issue (No.135) is now available for free download.

Defra’s Food Strategy White Paper fails to acknowledge or address the breadth of issues facing the food system

ORC Trustee Professor Janet Dwyer has been awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2022

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

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.

We would like to thank everybody who supported our Climate Friendly Farming appeal

IFOAM Organics Europe position paper on carbon farming. Finding synergies between climate action and biodiversity protection

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.

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

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.