Reflecting on the Resilient Farm Roadshow
Matt Smee's reflections on the value of the Resilient Farm Roadshow events against the backdrop of the very many challenges farmers face.
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February 19, 2026
The 2026 BASE-UK Conference explored how farmers can build resilient businesses amid a challenging landscape of declining support and shifting policy frameworks.
February 10, 2026
Vicki Hird responds to the latest UK National Security Assessment report - highlighting the dire risks to society from ignoring environmental harms.
January 16, 2026
Read a selection of Alice, Janie and Phil's key session highlights and wider learnings from the Oxford Real Farming Conference 2026.
July 10, 2025
Alice Farmery reflects on her first experience of Groundswell, sharing some of her highlights and key learnings...
January 22, 2025
We were delighted to take part and attend (in-person and on-line) the Oxford Real Farming Conference a couple of weeks ago. Ever inspiring, we thought we’d give you some of our reflections along with some useful resource recommendations that were highlighted in the sessions that we attended…
June 14, 2024
Janie Caldbeck and ORC colleagues report back from the EURAF 2024 conference in Brno in the Czech Republic; abuzz with researchers from all over Europe presenting research outputs, along with some interesting talks from farmers...
March 6, 2023
Steven Jacobs reflects on the importance of building seed breeding programmes that offer more genetic diversity and greater grower control than those currently dominating the plant breeding industry in a blog inspired by a recent seed legislation workshop with The Gaia Foundation.
June 29, 2022
Marianne Landzettel gives her take on sessions involving the Secretary of State at Groundswell 2022 - including discussions about the way forward for regenerative agriculture, measuring soil carbon and renumerating farmers, and the Sustainable Farming Incentive...
December 3, 2021
Real Seeds' Kate McEvoy shines a light on the fragility of the seed system and trys to encourage people to think about seed sovereignty as a fundamental part of food sovereignty...
September 27, 2021
Will Sibly blogs about the Net Zero from Productive Grasslands (NZPG) partnership.
September 10, 2021
Rowan Dumper-Pollard writes about the ORC joining the Countryside Charity in seizing the initiative and campaigning for the government to increase UK hedgerows by 40% in line with recent recommendations made by the Climate Change Committee (CCC) 2018 report.
March 25, 2021
Senior ORC Researcher Colin Tosh introduces a research project designed to investigate barriers to the uptake of agroforestry by farmers.