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		<title>Will Cadbury sale hurt Green &amp; Black&#8217;s?</title>
		<link>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2010/01/21/will-cadbury-sale-hurt-green-blacks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian today carries a very interesting take on the sale of Cadbury to American firm, Kraft, by Green &#38; Black&#8217;s president and founder, Craig Sams.
Having been sold to Cadbury, Green &#38; Black&#8217;s is now, of course, going to be part of the Kraft porfolio and that raises questions about what it will do with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now &#8220;that jumper&#8221; could be yours</title>
		<link>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2010/01/14/now-that-jumper-could-be-yours/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our now almost legendary jumper was spawned from a pattern found in a drawer at the Farmers Weekly offices. They were probably all the rage about 20 years ago.
The pattern ended up with us because our Certification Manager tells awful jokes and Community Editor at FW, Isabel Davies, took pity on him, told him he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Industry leaders&#8217; concerns over EU logo competition</title>
		<link>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2010/01/07/industry-leaders-concerns-over-eu-logo-competition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To say there have been &#8216;reservations&#8217; regarding the EU competition to design a new Europe-wide, compulsory organic logo might be an understatement.
We&#8217;ve expressed our own disappointment with the candidates we&#8217;re being asked to vote on*, but now there&#8217;s even some criticism from one of the judges who were asked to pick the final contenders; none [...]]]></description>
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		<title>100,000 litres of organic milk could be dumped</title>
		<link>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2010/01/07/10000-litres-of-organic-milk-could-be-dumped/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grave news emerges from OMSCo (via the Daily Telegraph) that the co-operative might have to dump up to 100,000 litres of organic milk because of the weather.
According to the Telegraph piece problems with collection, storage and delivery have combined to create the kind of perfect storm (my term, not theirs) that is a nightmare in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waitrose backs OrganicUK push</title>
		<link>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2009/12/09/waitrose-backs-organicuk-push/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s really good to hear that Waitrose has put its weight behind the OrganicUK campaign to fund a three-year promotional bid for organics with EU matched funding.
We&#8217;ve been behind the initiative from day one, as have many of the country&#8217;s leading organic brands, not to mention an array of farmers and smaller processors.
Having bust through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An update on THE jumper</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s official &#8211; the OF&#38;G/Farmers Weekly jumper is underway! I&#8217;ve seen it with my own eyes.
Our handicrafts expert, Certification Officer Katie Owens, is beavering away with the knitting needles and is already a good couple of inches up from the bottom (probably called lower hem, or something, for those in the know).
She&#8217;s using only the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New boss at Community Foods</title>
		<link>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2009/12/03/new-boss-at-community-foods/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some industry news we&#8217;ve received that&#8217;s worth sharing:
Community Foods appoints new MD and Commercial Director
Community Foods Ltd, experts in sourcing dried fruit, nuts and seeds as well as leading organic specialist has appointed Martin Rome as Managing Director from 1st January 2010 to succeed Bill Henry who remains on the board.
Martin joined Community Foods from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New regulation on salmonella in turkeys</title>
		<link>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2009/11/12/new-regulation-on-salmonella-in-turkeys/</link>
		<comments>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2009/11/12/new-regulation-on-salmonella-in-turkeys/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next year sees new regulation from the EU on managing salmonella in turkey flocks. Any producers potentially affected by this can read more in this very well explained piece from the Welsh Poultry Centre.
As the piece points out, salmonella is not actually *that* great of an issue in the UK, but it can be elsewhere [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NIAB and TAG merger</title>
		<link>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2009/11/05/niab-and-tag-merger/</link>
		<comments>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2009/11/05/niab-and-tag-merger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re not sure how it happened, but some of us here missed the news that the National Institute of Agricultural Botany and The Arable Group had merged.
So, given that we missed the announcement last month, we thought it worthy of a mention here for anyone else who was too engrossed elsewhere to pick up on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Halloween madness ensues</title>
		<link>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2009/10/30/halloween-madness-ensues/</link>
		<comments>http://www.organicfarmers.org.uk/blog/2009/10/30/halloween-madness-ensues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With our own staff madly slicing away for an in-house competition, we&#8217;ve been treated to some fine examples of the dark art of pumpkin carving from some of our friends too.
We&#8217;ll be revealing the OF&#38;G entries in good time (haven&#8217;t seen them all myself yet!) but to keep things moving, here&#8217;s what others have been [...]]]></description>
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