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29 January 2010
Date : Wednesday 3 February & Thursday 4 February 2010 Location : The Custard Factory, Birmingham
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20 January 2010
Organic Milk Suppliers Co-operative's latest Turning Worm newsletter (January 2010) contains information relating to the Soil Association's organic standards. Unfortuantely, some of the information was inaccurate. Phil Stocker, the Soil Association's...
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28 October 2009
The life of Dinah Williams, who was born in 1911, spanned the period from the organic movement’s early years in the 1930s to its prominence in the 21st century. During this time, she was a highly respected dairy farmer, a member of the Soil Associat...
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28 October 2009
Peter Melchett examines the findings of a University of Reading report looking at how much food would be produced if the whole of England and Wales' farmland was converted to organic agriculture.
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28 October 2009
Born 1898, Lady Evelyn Barbara Balfour was a farmer and one of few women in 1915 to study agriculture. Although many people were involved in the Soil Association’s creation and early development, Lady Eve Balfour’s contribution – as its founder and ...
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23 March 2009
Soil Association director Patrick Holden and Compassion in World Farming director Philip Lymbery have today written to the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, urging him to recognise the importance of statements made in the Chief Medical Officer’s report ...
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18 November 2008
The Soil Association is calling on the Government to issue guidelines that will limit the veterinary use of the most modern penicillin-type antibiotics. This is necessary to prevent the spread of a serious new superbug.
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21 December 2006
The Soil Association demands the Government takes urgent action to prevent an emerging farm ‘superbug’ problem turning into a major public health crisis. The new superbug has been confirmed on 11 cattle farms in the UK, and more cattle and pig farms...
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