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02 December 2011
A practical day looking at soil management, making best use of FYM and slurry, utilizing clover to fix nitrogen and an introduction to PLANET. Speakers include James Bretherton, AgScope, Richard Huxtable and Gavin Elrick, SAC. The day will also incl... |
29 November 2011
The choices we make over the festive season - about what goes on our plates, the presents we buy, what we wear and what we put on our skin – have far reaching consequences for our health, the health of our countryside, and the development of countri... |
29 November 2011
Crucial farm reforms explained The public will get the chance to find out about vital European proposals to reform the Common Agricultural Policy at a series of meetings across Scotland. Senior Scottish Government officials will chair the road shows... |
28 November 2011
The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has announced that the Renewable Heat Incentive project will start accepting applications from Monday November 28. |
24 November 2011
A man who has helped to change the way Britain thinks about bread and now teaches baking at his home in Lamancha, West Linton, Peeblesshire, was honoured today, in an unusual move, with a Special Judges’ Award at the BBC Food & Farming Awards. Sheil... |
23 November 2011
Today the Soil Association led Food for Life Partnership was awarded the prestigious BBC Radio 4 Derek Cooper Award. The award recognises 'unsung heroes, whose work has increased our access to, and knowledge and appreciation of, good food'. For five... |
22 November 2011
The organic farmer owned company Organic Arable is set to pay a loyalty bonus to its members. Established by farmers in 1999 to ensure a fair deal for its members and its trading partners, it now has 63 members and deals exclusively with UK grown or... |
22 November 2011
Shetland wool producers bid to reclaim the ‘magic’ of Shetland wool. Organic “Native Shetland Wool“ is set to be given the highest level of protection assuring proof of provenance and breed, joining products such as Shetland Lamb, Cornish Clotted Cr... |
21 November 2011
The Soil Association led Food for Life Partnership , the lottery funded network of schools and communities across England committed to transforming food culture, has been nominated for the prestigious Derek Cooper award in the up and coming BBC Radi... |