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The Agricology Podcast offers practical insights into sustainable farming, featuring conversations with farmers, researchers, and advisors. Explore topics like soil health, regenerative agriculture, and livestock management through diverse perspectives.
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Row weeding in organic carrots. Photo: Phil Sumption
OGA webinar with Dr Charles โ€˜Merfโ€™ Merfield on the 'Big 4' in weed management: minimising weed seed rain, (proper) false seed beds, flame weeding, and row hoes
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Buckwheat cover crop
Innovative farmers webinar with conclusions and recommendations from the field lab on using cover and biofumigant crops to reduce wireworm populations in potatoes
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Grazing livestock - It's not the cow but the how
This report from the Sustainable Food Trust highlights the benefits that regeneratively grazed livestock can have for climate, nature, food security and health.
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Diverse flowering cover crops sown under kale. Photo: Jayne Arnold
OGA webinar on using cover crops and diverse mixes in no-till veg production to improve soil and reduce reliance on bought-in compost.
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In this video recorded at Groundswell, Matt Smee of Agricology hosts a discussion with Tim May and Oliver Chedgey from Kingsclere Estate. Together, they explore how mobile dairy operations have been successfully integrated into their farming system.
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Living mulches technical guide
This Agricology technical guide is designed to support farmers in making informed decisions about adopting living mulches in arable systems.
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In-field trees in the landscape: Copyright: Woodland Trust
Three leaflets from the Woodland Trust aimed at livestock farmers wanting to make the most of trees on the farm.
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Cow browsing hedge line behind electric wire. Photo Lindsay Whistance
This is the audio recording of a session run by Agricology at the Oxford Real Farming Conference featuring Matt Smee with Organic Research Centreโ€™s Dr Lindsay Whistance.
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This resource consists of the audio recording and presentations from a session at the Oxford Real Farming Conference 2025 which aimed to address the stigma around the use of tillage in organic and agroecological crop production.
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Pumpkins in strip till, Andy Dibben
Andy recorded this series of short videos over two seasons of the trial outlining his motivations for getting involved, thoughts behind the trials, and the challenges of making it work...
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Mark Lea talks with Matt Smee at Oxford Real Farming Conference about the learnings from 5 years of trialling living mulches in an organic arable system.
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Herdwick sheep, Cumbria. Taken by Janie Caldbeck. All Rights Reserved
Sustainability is multi-faceted - itโ€™s not just about carbon. True sustainability means taking a holistic view better representing the multi-functionality of UK sheep farming...
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Group of people hand weeding a vegetable crop in the field. Courtesy of Jane Sweetman
Cultivating Wisdomโ€™ is a collection of agroecological research summaries from practitioners in the Landworkersโ€™ Allianceโ€™s โ€˜Experts in Your Fieldโ€™ project.
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hak-schoffeltechniek carrot ridge interrow hoe. Photo: Charles Merfield
A report on the use of โ€˜row hoesโ€™ โ€” what used to be called inter-row hoes / cultivators.
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Grazing cows
Video playlist from the Soil Association of case study farmers practising mob grazing in Scotland and associated webinars.
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This open access paper (first published in the British Ecological Society Journal of Ecology) aimed to better quantify how diversity affects ecosystem functions and services, and particularly to look at how species richness, community composition, and relative abundance jointly and individually contribute to ecosystem functions.
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A cow in a field of clover and chicory at Yatesbury House Farm
This ORFC 2024 session reframed the case for livestock in the landscape.
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Nature Friendly Farming in Action. Taken by Ben Andrew (rspb-images.com). All Rights Reserved
NFFN/Farm Wildlife booklet highlights farmers enhancing ecosystems, restoring soil health, boosting profit margins, and increasing resilience to extreme weather.
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This Groundswell 2024 session explored the role and challenges of incorporating trees into dairy farming systems.
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PGM pellet: Photo: Perennial Green Manures project
This report summarises findings from the Perennial Green Manures project highlighting the potential of PGMs as fertilisers and further areas of research and innovation needed.
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Sheep at Shimpling Park Farm. Courtesy of John Pawsey. All Rights Reserved
Footage of a Groundswell 2024 panel discussion organised by Agricology, exploring the practicalities of reintroducing sheep into your business.
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Dorset cows grazing: Photo Phil Sumption
Interesting research insights from Rothamsted Research based on a long-term grazing experiment that compares set-stocking with cell grazing
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Short video of Nikki Yoxall on the power of native and rare breed cattle to be ecosystem engineers through Holistic Management
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