GM maize edges out organic production in Spain.
Seeds from some genetically modified crops can endure in soil for at least 10 years. That’s the finding of Swedish scientists who examined a field, originally planted with experimental oilseed rape a decade ago, and found transgenic specimens were still growing there.
Horse power on Iain Tolhurst’s holding
The European Commission has confirmed that the implementation of the new EU-wide organic “Bio” logo will be postponed until 2010.
Are the world’s livestock such polluters of our atmosphere?
New plan from EU to combat climate change
MPs say biofuels are no solution
Mark Measures discusses the effects of organic conversion grants – OELS
Exeter Univ shopping study
UK retail market analysis from TNS
New hope for EU effort on organic plant breeding
We have had a year of disease after disease.
For organic read multifunctional
A call for real organic poultry – produced with ethics, principles and adherence to proper organic standards
The world’s first organic cod farm, run by Johnson Seafarms just off Shetland, is in crisis. The firm has been put into administration with its directors sacked after they allegedly ran up debts totalling £40 million in the last two years.
The Anderson Report into last summer’s FMD outbreak in Surrey is a whitewash
Wild birds blamed for Diss avian flu outbreak
Trade issues derail livestock vaccination
An ORC briefing on the evidence for enhanced nutritional quality of organic foods
Full programme for ORC conference now available
Newcastle University thumbs up for organic food quality
