Bird flu H5N1 has been confirmed in Suffolk on an intensive turkey farm.
The Organic Research Centre Elm Farm is one of the key partners in a new Defra-funded project examining soil fertility building
A growing body of scientific evidence from the EU and USA underlines the real additional benefits of organic foods.
Laverstoke Park launches new Soil Foodweb lab. Seminar invitation to attend launch in May.
The cloud of suspicion over wild birds as primary vectors of the H5N1 virus is being lifted…
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Rome conference says organic farming is the way to feed a hungry world running low on fossil fuels
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The first in a series of David Astor Memorial Lectures
Defra to tender for Bluetongue vaccine
No to the agrofuels craze, says campaign group GRAIN
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The serious ruminant disease of blue tongue is providing scientists with a perfect example of global warming in action. As it spreads north from the Mediterranean to Holland and Germany, European livestock farmers are already feeling the heat.
The “organicness” of air freight and the suitability of modern livestock breeds such as Holstein cows and hybrid brioler chickens were two issues under the microscope at the Soil Association annual conference in Cardiff last weekend. Both issues are to be examined by the SA standards committee for a decsion to made “within the year”.
