Tag: animal welfare

Meta-analysis shows that in many areas, organic farming results in lower environmental impacts than other forms of agriculture.

The farming industry is being called upon to complete an important online survey regarding their use of abattoirs and the importance of an abattoir for their business

New book on the latest science behind organic dairy farming, co-edited by Lindsay Whistance with Stephen Roderick and Mette Vaarst is available now.

Cultivating Organic Solutions for True Sustainability: Lindsay Whistance and Rowan Dumper-Pollard reflect on their experiences in Taiwan

Teagasc webinar featuring Lindsay Whistance

Lindsay Whistance shares her insights into the link between animal welfare and resilience in livestock farming in this interview as part of the Re-Livestock project

This has been another action-packed year for ORC, marked by a wealth of activity that has broadened our networks and opened up significant opportunities.

Lindsay Whistance reviews this FiBL technical guide which describes the natural relationship between the cow and her calf and draws conclusions for the species-appropriate rearing of calves.

Swillington Organic Farm is a 400-acre organic mixed farm in Leeds, with beef sucklers, sheep, pigs, vegetables and poultry. All of the farm's produce is sold directly to the public through farmers markets, online meat boxes, farmshop and CSA schemes. They also have…

This recently published manual contains 29 factsheets created within the POWER project (part of Horizon 2020, CORE Organic Co-fund project). The manual is split into chapters with the factsheets presented under four major themes. The…

ORC's Senior Livestock Researcher Lindsay Whistance features on a fascinating recent Regenerative Agroforestry Podcast. Through Lindsay's extensive knowledge of silvopasture, she enables us to see agroforestry from the animal’s perspective. Trees can provide livestock with…

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…

Agroforestry webinar, led by the Soil Association, as part of the WRFFC Conference which was held from 16-19th Nov 2020. Speakers include Tim Pagella (Bangor University), Dr Lindsay Whistance (Organic Research Centre) and Gareth Davies…

New paper published in ‘Livestock Science’ this month. The article assesses how Flock Health Clubs improve farmer-vet relationships and measures of flock health & welfare. The paper's authors include ORC's Marion Johnson and Nicola Noble…

It is with great excitement that OK-Net EcoFeed announces its final project conference bringing together 4 Horizon 2020 projects: OK-Net EcoFeed,  PPILOW, Freebirds and POWER. Mark the 25th-26th of January 2021 in your calendar and…