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The Organic Research Centre (ORC) is the UK's leading independent organic research organisation. Changing the future of food and farming.
This guide from the TRUTH Project covers rooting, how to assess rooting systems, and practical guidance on optimising root growth.
Insight for farmers from new UK research on managing slugs in waterlogged fields
From grain store preparation to final dispatch, our guidance will help you minimise loss of premiums, through claims and rejections. It looks at how to identify and manage hazards/risks and details…
The GreenGrass project will work with conventional dairy farmers who are striving to minimise their carbon footprint and improve efficiency through reduced use of N fertilisers. We will collaborate…
This project converts the information we have on PGR applications in the YEN into analysable data, and then explores associations between PGR use and crop yield, height, ears per m2 and other…
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The IPM Decisions project created an online platform that is easy to use for the monitoring and management of pests.
Access the platform now at https://platform.ipmdecisions.net/
Co-funded by the…
This SRUC guide provides practical advice on growing Organic Oilseed Rape in Scotland. The principles of this guide apply to organic Oilseed Rape growth in the whole of the UK and other locations.
The potential yield of UK oilseed rape crops is 6.5t/ha but until 2011 average farm yields had remained static since the mid 1980s at around 3.0 t/ha.
The AFN Network+ was established by UK Research and Innovation in 2022 to consider the challenge of transforming the UK’s food system to meet our climate commitments. Since then, we’ve built a…
Hear more about the Good Life Opportunity frameworks and how they can potentially support and advance an animal's quality of life.
Date: 18th November 2025
Location: Pavilions of Harrogate Great Yorkshire Showground Harrogate HG2 8NZ
A technical event at Field Hall Farm, exploring the role of agroecological farming in improving livestock health and performance.
Join us at Leckford Farm for a presentation of 3 years of intercropping trials from the LEGUMINOSE field labs and University of Reading.
Regenerative dairy farming can provide farmers with economic resilience as well as short term opportunity, but for industry-wide benefit regeneration must be delivered throughout the entire value…
Achieving better returns from a suckler herd depends on increasing the number of calves weaned from the cows and heifers that are mated.
See how wholecrop beans can cut livestock feed costs, boost sustainability and replace imported soya. Organised by partners in NCS project.
Yorkshire farmer Richard Barker is inviting visitors to his farm near Richmond on Tuesday 2nd December to see how home-grown beans can cut feed costs, boost sustainability and reduce reliance on…