Agricology Blog

Phil Sumption reports from the Organic Field Days - the biennial meeting point for the German organic farming sector.

On 12 February I attended the annual BASE-UK conference in Newcastle. The day was filled with a range of inspiring and informative talks that covered topics including living mulches, on-farm research, strip till in horticulture and building on-farm resilience.

Oper8 is a three year EU horizon project bringing together farmers, researchers and academics to share alternative weed control solutions.

The aim was to hold a practical event demonstrating techniques to restore soil health and sharing knowledge and experience between local farmers and farm managers working at a range of scales in the catchment.

Matt Smee reports back from attending an event intended to help make steps towards a practical incarnation of RASE’s 2022 report 'Farm of the Future: Journey to Net Zero.'

Vicky Bowskill gives insights into the dynamics between healthy meadows and hay making, explaining her research on mixed species floodplain meadows.

In this month's Agricology vlog, Richard Smith talks to us about scanning 1,200 Lleyn sheep at Daylesford Organic Farm with Bob Tofield.

Rachel Smith reports back from a conference in North Wales that marked the end of the RE-DIRECT project.

James Alexander discusses using the roller crimper method to kill off cover crops, direct drilling into the mulch, and the impacts on weeds and soil health.

Richard Smith of Daylesford Organic Farms talks about grass leys and how they put them into stubble, and undersowing into cereal crops

In 2019, AHDB Farmbench invited farmers to benchmark one or more of their organic cereal and oilseed enterprises with the AHDB Farmbench tool and join a group of other organic farmers for a chance to compare outcomes and discuss results.

In September’s vlog Richard Smith from Daylesford Organic Farm talks us through the process of preparing a field to put it back in to grass.