Category: News and events

Glyphosate levels in children and adults drop dramatically after one week of eating organic.
Research breaks new ground in tracking. Roundup pesticide contamination in American families’ diets

Agricology has been awarded a Defra ELM Test in partnership with the University of Reading to research how effective videos and podcasts are as tools to learn about farming practices. As part of this study…

'The first major review of our food system in 75 years' ORC welcomes the launch of the independent National Food Strategy, led by Henry Dimbleby, which was published on Monday (29th July 2020). We applaud…

This is a critical time for the future of organic farming in the UK; Brexit requires a new agricultural policy and environment grants are being fundamentally reformed. It is now widely recognised that there are…

The booklet, translated from the original Danish by Lindsay Whistance, as part of the OK-Net Ecofeed project, focuses on designing free-range areas for laying hens in order to: Increase the farmer's satisfaction in his/her work;Improve…

The original Public Goods tool (PGT) was designed by ORC as an on-farm assessment tool for monitoring public good delivery and sustainable practices. It incorporated 11 themes representing holistic sustainability, with each theme containing a…

Talk of rewilding and corridors for insects is all well and good, but what we do with our farmland is more important Mark Measures' (ORC Senior Adviser) letter addressing the need for integrating wildlife management…

Agriculture Bill debates on Agroecology, Agroforestry, Organic farming and Soil Health in the House of Lords The Agriculture Bill is currently going through the Committee Stage in the House of Lords. Debates on the 9th…

The Perdix Partnership have a client who is looking to start a joint venture on his 800 acres farm in Warwickshire UK, it has been a arable farm intensively farmed for many years but he…

New date! Postponed from September 2020

OF&G and Agricology webinar

Know your soils and know your sales: organic min-till and non-organic no-till webinar

Agricology Virtual Field Day

Make your voice heard on Defra's new proposals for Environmental Land Management Defra have reopened the Environmental Land Management (ELM) Policy Discussion Document (PDD) on CitizenSpace. The PDD sets out Defra's initial thinking for ELM…

Opportunities for farmer involvement

How do we encourage people to value heritage breeds?

New Practice Abstracts and videos

Wheat trial failure confirms folly of GM’s sticking plaster approach

Field lab featured on BBC Farming Today

Is the government ignoring the value of ‘public goods’ in organic farming?

Threat to public health and the environment

German Operational Group investigates effective application of Mycorrhiza in the field

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Nature and soil health are flourishing at the National Trust’s organic farm