Resources

Bulletin Articles

Sustainable sheep and goat production – a holistic approach

Lisa Arguile and Dr Marion Johnson summarise the work conducted over the past four years in ORC Bulletin 132, Autumn/Winter 2020

Sustainability assessment of sheep and goat farms; a comparison between European countries

Article by Lisa Arguile and Marion Johnson (ORC) in ORC Bulletin 131, Spring 2020

Sheep grazing within arable rotations

Article by Marion Johnson, Lisa Arguile (ORC), Nicola Noble (ORC/National Sheep Association) and Wendy Jones (National Sheep Association) in ORC Bulletin 130, Winter 2019

Flock Health Clubs – have they been a successful initiative?

Article by Marion Johnson and Lisa Arguile (ORC), Nicola Noble (ORC/National Sheep Association) and Wendy Jones (National Sheep Association) in ORC Bulletin 129, Autumn 2019

Sheep sustainability research findings beginning to emerge

Article by Nicola Noble in ORC Bulletin No. 126, Autumn 2018

Breeding biodiversity

The importance of maintaining and increasing the use of biological diversity in crops and cropping systems in the face of climate change and pressure on non-renewable resources is increasingly recognised. Yet breeding for and management of high-biodiversity agriculture is neither well established nor even well-studied. To fill this gap, an ambitious, large-scale EU research initiative has been launched which will integrate diversity at all levels into the breeding of agricultural plants. ORC is a partner in the project which is called SOLIBAM (“Strategies for Organic and Low-input Integrated Breeding and Management”). The project team – Sally Howlett, Thomas Döring, Louisa Winkler and Martin Wolfe – describe what is happening.

GM debate bubbles below the surface

Mass media coverage of genetically engineered crops has cooled since the big public debates of 2003/2004. But the threat to our food supply and environment from contamination has not. ORC’s Dr Bruce Pearce reports from a key EU gathering on GM and GE crops in Vienna…