Category: News and events

Come and join ORC at the Regenerative Agriculture Show and Conference in Hertfordshire

The Farmer Network have recently been awarded funding from the National Lottery Reaching Communities Fund to develop a new Northumberland Farmer Network over the next 5 years. They are now advertising for the role of Project Manager/Coordinator

A huge thank you to Tim Bennett who steps down as Chair of ORC’s Council of Management. He will be succeeded by Donald Peck.

From 20-27 April ORC is taking part in the Green Match Fund Campaign 2023, organised by the Big Give – the UK’s biggest online match funding platform, to raise funds to further this work. During the campaign week any money raised up to £10,000 will be doubled. 

Webinar on electric weeding – Case studies in vineyard, grassland, and fruit production

Join The Organic Research Centre for the Living Mulches Network Day at Mark Lea’s Green Acres Farm in Shropshire on Wednesday 3 May

SAVE THE DATE — OF&G National Organic Conference at Green Acres Farm in Shropshire – 4 JULY 2023

We are delighted to have been chosen again this year as one of the benefitting charities of the Green Match Fund Campaign.

Join us at The Agroforestry Show with The Woodland Trust and the Soil Association! Interest in agroforestry is on the rise across UK farming and forestry, but it can be hard to know how to get started.

The widespread adoption of intercroping will only succeed through the collaboration of all supply chain actors, breeding approaches that take into account the complexity of the supply chains, and implementation of diversification strategies in every process from field to fork.

Review shows that addressing barriers to crop diversification by farmers requires a simultaneous and coordinated approach.

Please help us improve the reliability of the Organic Farm Management Handbook data by supplying your arable crop results from last harvest.

Watch this ORC webinar for an overview of current research on plant populations, what this approach can offer, what we still need to understand and how we might get policy-makers to support wider use of such genetically diverse cereals.

The Organic Research Centre and the EU Horizon Europe-funded REFOREST project are looking for agroforestry farmers and stakeholders to be part of the North of England Living Lab.

More organic farming means less pesticide use and risk

Come to Bowhouse for a brand new festival celebrating all things Real Bread, packed with workshops, talks, hands-on activity and the results of the 2023 Scottish Bread Championship.

Increasing by almost 4%, the European organic market reached another high in 2021: 54.5 billion euros. Organic farmland expanded by almost 0.8 m ha.

This webinar aims to give an overview of current research on plant populations, what this approach can offer, what we still need to understand and how we might get policymakers to support wider use of such genetically diverse cereals.

The Second year of results from the organic hops field lab are now available to read. This field lab aims to help organic and low-input hop growers find suitable varieties of hops for organic farming. 

UK organic market shows positive and robust growth of 1.6% in 2022 topping £3.1 billion in an unprecedented and challenging year for business and consumers

Come and join leading practitioners for two days of hands-on workshops that explore how biodynamic principles and practice and permaculture design can be used at farm scale, and combined to create resilient, productive, financially viable farms that support biodiversity and serve the wider community.

The theme of the RAMIRAN Conference for 2023 is ‘managing organic resources in a changing environment’. RAMIRAN is inviting research abstracts relating to the use of organic materials, from theory to implementation and adoption by stakeholders.

The study shows that achieving the EU 25% organic farming by 2030 target could make a big difference to the environmental impacts of agriculture.