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Looking to integrate trees into your farming business this coming planting season but don’t know which trees to plant, how many, or where? Unsure about fencing, or how to market your tree products? Discover the answers to these questions and more. In this two-day intensive workshop run by FarmEd you will be guided through an intuitive agroforestry design process by some of the UK’s leading agroforestry practitioners, receive 1:1 advice in clinic sessions, and walk ...
New Wakelyns publication and tributes to Martin Wolfe at ORFC
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The Soil Association have just released a new short film Agroforestry in the Uplands which focuses on why trees and hedgerows on upland farms are good for livestock, the environment, biodiversity, soil health and the bottom line.
Woodland Trust Research Briefing
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The Soil Association have just released a new short film Agroforestry in the Uplands which focuses on why trees and hedgerows on upland farms are good for livestock, the environment, biodiversity, soil health and the bottom line. Three farmers, from Perthshire in Scotland, Brecon in Wales and Dartmoor in England, tell us what they’ve done, why it makes sense and how they got started. One of the farms included is part of the Innovative Farmers ...
Would you like to get to know the ORC staff, learn more about what they are working on at the moment and find out what inspired them to pursue a career in organic research? To help celebrate our 40th anniversary year and throughout 2021 we will be releasing short ‘ten minutes with’ interviews to let you do just that! What is your job role at the ORC? Supporter Engagement Manager How long have you worked ...
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Presentation at 8th Organic producers' Conference: Intensive sustainability or sustainable intensification - which way forward for organic farming?
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BBC Farming Today visited Andy Gray one of the farmers participating in the new Innovative Farmers Silvopasture field lab. ” A field lab being run by Innovative Farmers – a not-for-profit group which links up farmers and researchers – is looking at whether introducing trees into fields used for grazing, increases soil carbon. Those involved hope the data will be used by policy makers to decide how much farmers should be paid for adding trees ...
Our Senior Livestock Researcher Lindsay Whistance wrestles with the arguments for and against Veganuary in this blog On Boxing Day evening, at the slowing down of festive indulgences, I began to speculate about what should be on my list of New Year resolutions. Of course, all the usual suspects appeared in the line up but, this year, a newspaper article had me thinking about the merits of adding ‘Veganuary’ to the list since, although my ...
ORC welcomes the recognition by the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) of the benefits of agroforestry with new guidance on how agroforestry can be compatible with the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS). This is a major breakthrough and the result of many years of lobbying by ORC, the Woodland Trust, the Soil Association, Abacus Agriculture and others. When the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) was introduced, the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) stated that grazed woodland was no longer ...
