Bale Grazing at Treflach Farm
After a couple of days let up from the seemingly never-ending rain, we visited Treflach farm on the Welsh / Shropshire border on 8th March 2024, for a Pasture for Life (PfL) field day about bale grazing and overwintering strategies.
LEARN MOREJuly 19, 2023
Don’t miss the TREEmendous occasion that is the UK’s first agroforestry show on 6-7th September in Wiltshire.
June 16, 2023
With the sun shining and a fantastic range of speakers lined up, the Agricology team and a mix of farmers, growers and industry professionals gathered on Tuesday 23rd May at the Dairy, Waddesdon Estate, for some 'soil time' discussing ‘Getting Started with Regenerative Agriculture.’ Matt Smee gives us the lowdown...
May 3, 2023
Wakelyns' David Wolfe invites you to visit the farms in the UK and Ireland celebrating their agroforestry planting over the course of the open weekend.
May 2, 2023
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.'
April 18, 2023
ORC's Christian Gossel describes the new version of the farm sustainability Public Goods Tool and invites farmers to try it out and share with others...
April 17, 2023
The Organic Research Centre (ORC) is taking part in the Big Give Green Match Fund 2023 to raise £20,000 in just 1 week! These funds will go towards ORC’s ‘The Importance of Hedgerows’ appeal.
March 17, 2023
Do you have hedgerows, treelines, scattered trees, or scrub on your farm? We want to learn from farmers about the benefits and challenges of managing these ‘trees outside woods’ and have compiled a short online survey to capture your views.
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.
March 1, 2023
RSPB and FarmWildlife's Richard Winspear writes about 6 key areas of farm management that focus on restoring nature to make farming more profitable, productive & resilient to the big food production challenges we face.
February 14, 2023
Our friends at ADAS have asked us to help spread the word about an upcoming conference and a callout to submit research abstracts. RAMIRAN is a research and expertise network that was set up more than 25 years ago to improve nutrient utilisation and minimise the environmental impact of livestock manure and other organic material used in agricultural systems.
January 30, 2023
"We can’t be growers championing our sustainable production and continue using peat. The issues at stake - biodiversity loss and the loss of carbon - are just too great..."
January 25, 2023
Agricology's Farm Engagement Officer Matt Smee reflects on his experience of the ORFC (2023) and its contribution to helping build a resilient, equitable and sustainable farming system...