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All the latest happenings in the world of sustainable farming
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LEAF Open Farm Sunday announces plans for 2021
LEAFarticleLEAF (Linking Environment And Farming), organisers of the farming industry’s annual open day, LEAF Open Farm Sunday (LOFS), has announced a year-round programme of public...
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What do you think about growing pulses in UK agriculture post-BREXIT??
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IPM Resource Toolbox - input survey
articleThe EU funded IPMWorks project [H2020 project no. 101000339] will develop an online IPM Resource Toolbox. This toolbox will enable farmers, advisors and researchers across...
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RABI extends support for farmers with new wellbeing initiative
articleRABI extends support for farmers with new wellbeing initiative Charity’s evolving strategy aims to reach more farming people With 2020 bringing ever greater levels of...
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New film championing organic – coming soon!
articleJanuary 21st 2021 will see the release of an explosive new film which exposes how we must urgently change the ways that we farm and...
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"I pay tribute to the work of the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust, Nature Friendly Farming and Agricology"
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360 Scientists Call for a Transition to Agroecology
articleOver 360 scientists from 42 countries—led by the University of Göttingen and Westlake University China—call for transition of food production systems to agroecological principles.
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Agroecology in the Agriculture Bill
articleFollowing a briefing given to a number of Peers ahead of the House of Lords debate on the Agriculture Bill, the the word “agroecological” has...
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Agricology Partners Rally to Respond to COVID-19
articlePRESS RELEASE AGRICOLOGY PARTNERS RALLY TO SHARE PRACTICAL, SUSTAINABLE FARMING TECHNIQUES IN THE WAKE OF CORONAVIRUS SOCIAL DISTANCING MEASURES Thursday 16th April 2020 The rapidly...
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LEAF Podcast: Interview with Caroline Drummond
articleLEAF's Chief Executive Caroline Drummond talks about the Global Pandemic and its wider impact on the indistry. Listen to the Podcast HERE . For more...
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COVID-19 Agricology Response
articleThe evolving situation with COVID-19 has lead to rapid changes in how people communicate and connect with one another. These are extraordinary and challenging times...
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Update on Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus Research
Game & Wildlife Conservation TrustarticleThis year will be the first that neonicotinoid seed dressings will no longer be routinely applied to cereal crops following their ban last year. This...
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Soil Farmer of the Year Announced
Farm Carbon Cutting ToolkitarticleJulian Gold, an arable farmer from Oxfordshire has been announced as the winner of the 2019 Soil Farmer of the Year. The competition, now in...
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Darren Doherty Comes to the UK
Ragmans FarmarticleRagmans Farm are hosting Darren Doherty - a key regenerative agriculture trainer based in Australia, in Gloucestershire this June. The main themes are taking Permaculture...
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Records Smashed in 2019 Big Farmland Bird Count
Game and Wildlife Conservation TrustarticleA FANTASTIC effort from farmers have helped secure a best-ever year for the Big Farmland Bird Count (BFBC). Results show 1,400 people – a 40%...
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Tributes paid to ‘inspirational’ agricultural innovator who created test farm in Suffolk
Martin WolfearticleA celebrated academic and agricultural pioneer with a deep-rooted belief in the need to embrace sustainable methods has died at the age of 81 in...
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Martin Wolfe Tribute
articleProfessor Martin Wolfe was a great friend and mentor to us. A true pioneer, Martin pursued his research into agroforestry, co-cropping, crop populations, new crop...
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Nene Valley Farmers Offered Subsidised Agricultural Courses
NenescapearticleAn objective of the Farming for the Future project is to provide landowner training in environmental farm management. One way we’d like to deliver this...
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The BOOM Awards Nominations Deadline To Be Extended
Soil AssocaitonarticleThe Soil Association BOOM Awards have been extended for another couple of weeks, to 15 March, to encourage more nominations, including for the Best Organic...
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BASIS Introduction to IFM and LEAF Marque Training
LEAFarticleBASIS Introduction to IFM and LEAFMarque Training 16th Apr 2019 - 17th Apr 2019 Middle Barn Grain Store, Overbury Enterprises, Overbury, Gloucestershire, GL20 7NX A...
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Championing the Farmed Environment: CFE relaunched
Campaign for the Farmed Environmentarticle10 years after its initial launch, the Campaign for the Farmed Environment (CFE) will be relaunched as Championing the Farmed Environment to begin a new...
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IDDRI report: Ten Years for Agroecology in Europe
Soil AssociationarticleTen Years for Agroecology in Europe’: new research shows an organically farmed Europe can feed a growing population a healthy diet Europe could be farmed...
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New field labs to investigate farm food waste – opportunities for farmers and growers
Innovative FarmersarticleAre you a farmer interested in working with other farmers on how to best quantify and monitor farm productivity and food waste? We have five...
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Farmer Cluster Website Launches
Game & Wildlife Conservation TrustarticleThe website was launched at the annual Farmer Cluster Conference in November, hosted by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust. This brand new, much-needed website...
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Request for Views on the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board
The AHDBarticleThe Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) is a UK statutory levy body, funded by farmers, growers and others in the supply chain. It delivers...
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Ecological Land Cooperative offer 3 new Smallholdings
Ecological Land Co-operativearticleThe Ecological Land Cooperative opens smallholder applications for their East Sussex site continuing the work of generating ecological farming opportunities and rural enterprise. The Ecological...
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Nenescape Offers Grants & Free Training Courses to Farmers
Farming for the FuturearticleWe are working with farmers and landowners in the Nene Valley from Northampton to Peterborough to help restore and create meadow and wetland habitats as...
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£3m support scheme launched to reduce air pollution from farming
Catchment Sensitive FarmingarticleThe Catchment Sensitive Farming (CSF) partnership has launched a new £3 million programme to reduce ammonia emissions from agriculture today (18 September, 2018). Farming is...