Optimising plans to utilise on-farm benefits from shelterbelts
7th Jul 2025
ORC’s Lindsay Whistance has written this article on shelterbelts that featured in the National Sheep Association (NSA) Sheep Farmer magazine last month.
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Feeding willow to lambs: Results from Innovative Farmers field lab
22nd Jan 2025
Join Innovative Farmers for the latest feeding willow to livestock network webinar.
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Measuring the Economic Performance of Small Ruminant Farms Using Balanced Scorecard and Importance-Performance Analysis: A European Case Study
18th Mar 2021
A new paper arising from the EU Horizon 2020-funded iSAGE project, co-authored by ORC's Stefano Orsini has been published in Sustainability Abstract Given the increasing complexity of the agro-food sector, the analysis of financial performance…
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Impact of Flock Health Clubs
30th Nov 2020
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…
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Assessing the sustainability of sheep and goat farms in Europe
24th Jul 2020
The original Public Goods tool (PGT) was designed by ORC as an on-farm assessment tool for monitoring public good delivery and sustainable practices. It incorporated 11 themes representing holistic sustainability, with each theme containing a…
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