Our blog

In the UK, there are around 60 species of dung beetle. By going about their daily business, dung beetles provide an array of ecosystem services...

Take a more regenerative farming approach and start monitoring your soil health. Do you accept the Spring Soil Test Challenge? Soilmentor challenge you to do...

In this months Agricology vlog, Jez Taylor (Head Grower at Daylesford Organic) discusses how he manages slugs in an organic system, including understanding their life...

In this month's Agricology vlog, Phil Jarvis, Farm Manger for the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust at the Allerton Project, gives an introduction to what...

Have you ever wondered about the activities of the humble grey field slug when it disappears below the soil surface? No? Understandable, but in fact...

Earthworms have been in the news recently, with new data confirming that earthworm numbers are low in UK arable soils due to intensive ploughing, repeated...

What is agroecology? Agroecology involves understanding ecological processes and applying these concepts to the design and management of agricultural production systems. “ Agroecology is concerned...

World Worm Week is the 23rd to the 31st of March and in this short video soil scientist Dr. Jackie Stroud from Rothamsted Research explains...

On February 26th, CFE were pleased to host representatives of our partners and supporters and member of the farming and conservation communities to mark its...

Head Stockman for Daylesford Farm, Phil Gordon-Jones talks us through the benefits of finishing his beef cattle on home grown forage and we join him...

The University of Reading, in collaboration with Harper Adams University, is running a project aiming at investigating the potential to reduce phosphorus losses from dairy...

Soil analysis is an important, perhaps essential management tool in organic and agroecological farming. It supports the primary means of assessing soil, which include walking...

The challenges facing farmers today are huge, with uncertainty around changes to CAP payments and questions about how farming will be valued in generations to...

We need to understand the drivers and constraints on growing crops in rotation, especially predicting the future impacts of climate change on crop rotations. What...

In this short vlog, Richard Smith, Farms Manager at Daylesford Organic, discusses why he feels that good breeding can reduce the need for additional inputs...

Agricology kick-started 2019 with the Oxford Real Farming Conference (ORFC) on 3rd - 4th January, along with over 1000 organic and conventional farmers, food producers...

When I talk to farmers often it is a case of too much rain, or not enough. Recent experience suggests they might be right -...

If you search for ‘diamondback’ in the social media then you will find posts about bicycles, guns, terrapins, snakes and several other weird and wonderful...

In December's vlog, Richard Smith, Farms Manager for Daylesford Organic, discusses strategies that he employs when choosing a bull (Daylesford stock pedigree registered Aberdeen Angus...

Farmer clusters are a bit of a ‘buzzword’ amongst those involved with conservation of wildlife and protection of resources on farmland. The idea of neighbouring...