Growing without Government Support – Can Farmers Flourish in a Subsidy-Free Future?Â
The 2026 BASE-UK Conference explored how farmers can build resilient businesses amid a challenging landscape of declining support and shifting policy frameworks.
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November 30, 2021
ORC Senior Researcher Colin Tosh reflects on results from an evidence review and interviews with farmers in which the main factors holding back agroforestry in England were identified.
October 26, 2021
The Prince’s Countryside Fund (PCF) is inviting farm businesses to join our new Farm for the Future programme, which is being delivered virtually and by local Farm Support Groups in 11 areas across England.
October 19, 2021
Article about interesting research exploring the potential and impacts of cell grazing different sward types.
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.
August 25, 2021
Bee keeper John Crocker shares his experience of allowing his bees to lead a natural life.
July 15, 2021
PhD student put a call out to farmers to fill out a survey designed to help understand the potential of rhizobial inoculants.
June 22, 2021
A joint industry and Research Council funded project looking at how to reintegrate sheep into arable systems for the improvement of soil quality is seeking help from arable farmers.
June 1, 2021
Call out for farmers to take part in a survey relating to IPM.
May 29, 2021
ORC Senior Agroforestry Researcher Colin Tosh reports back from the fifth cross-European conference on agroforestry, EURAF 2021.
May 28, 2021
Edd Colbert blogs about developing an ‘Agroforestry Living Textbook’ at FarmED in the Cotswolds to showcase inspiring agroforestry systems for arable, livestock and horticultural operations.
March 25, 2021
Senior ORC Researcher Colin Tosh introduces a research project designed to investigate barriers to the uptake of agroforestry by farmers.