Tag: Oxford Farming Conference

Stroud Brewery recognized for organic pale ale

Farmers and brewers have been involved in trials to identify disease-resistant hop…

Rosie Greenaway

Government must ‘stop tinkering around the edges’ – SA

At the Oxford Farming Conference the SA is awaiting a 'bold announcement'…

Rosie Greenaway

Defra ‘failed to name-check organic’ – OF&G

Further to the Soil Association’s response to Defra’s new Environmental Land Management…

Rosie Greenaway

Environment schemes ‘won’t work in isolation’ – Soil Association

Two new Government ELM schemes have been welcomed by the SA. But,…

Rosie Greenaway

Oxford Farming Conference confirms Dame Ellen MacArthur as speaker

Dame Ellen MacArthur has been confirmed as a speaker at the next…

Rosie Greenaway

Farmers on the front line of climate change

As the world prepares for COP26, farmers have been sharing their experiences…

Rosie Greenaway

Britain needs to ‘grow up’ when it comes to food security

This was the message from Professor Tim Lang at the OFC Bitesize…

Jane Wolfe

Real Farming Conference hits its stride as big brother “loses the plot”

The clash of the New Year farming conferences in Oxford has now…

Jim Manson

Organic could be worse for the environment, Krebs claims

The former chairman of the Food Standards Agency John Krebs has claimed…

Jim Manson

Professor offers science lesson to GM ‘conversionista’

A US university professor has welcomed former anti-GM-activist Mark Lynas’s “discovery of…

Jim Manson

Former anti-GM activist attacks “pernicious myth of organic”

A former anti-GM activist has accused the organic movement of perpetrating “the…

Jim Manson