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Organic Marketplace
The Soil Association's Organic Marketplace is the UK's biggest searchable on-line directory of organic livestock, forage and grazing - plus much, much more.
The Organic Marketplace allows you to buy and sell organic livestock, grazing and forage - plus search or offer jobs, business opportunities or even machinery - at any time by country, region and date.
Organic Market Report 2011
Sales of organic products fell 5.9% to £1.73 billion in 2010 with the rate of decline slowing significantly throughout the year.
The outlook for 2011 is cautiously optimistic. Despite fragile consumer confidence in the wider economy, the report shows positive signs of resilience and recovery for the organic sector overall. The biggest success stories were sales of organic beef (up 18%), organic baby food (up 10.3%) and organic textiles (up 7.8%).
Organically managed land decreased by 0.6% to 738,709 hectares and now represents 4.2% of UK farmland, equivalent to more than the combined area of Somerset and Wiltshire. The number of UK organic producers fell by 4.2% to 7,567 in 2010, from a record high of 7,896 the previous year.