Posted April 11th, 2012
Not so many years ago most farm businesses would not have felt broadband connectivity to be the necessity it is today. But as the world has rapidly moved online, internet access has failed to keep pace in rural areas. While city dwellers are now relishing the prospect of 100Mbit connection speeds (and even beyond) with…
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Posted February 7th, 2012
Every now and then the BBC’s popular Countryfile programme revisits the topic of organic food and farming. Of course, such high profile coverage of organics is always to be welcomed and this was a rounded and well-balanced feature. The trouble is it always feels a bit like they are giving it the ‘organics by numbers’…
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Posted July 14th, 2011
When the National Trust launched its ground-breaking MyFarm project at OF&G-licensed Wimpole Home Farm, in Cambridgeshire, it was with the full expectation that it would open the eyes of thousands of people to what it takes to be a farmer. That is certainly what seems to have happened when hundreds of viewers watched live on…
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Posted July 7th, 2011
It’s a big day for us; National Organic Cereals occupies a great deal of our time and attention throughout each year, all to ensure that it runs smoothly on the day. Today is that day – and so far, so good.
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Posted June 22nd, 2011
It’s always nice to be praised when you least expect it! When we read with interest the Farmers Weekly social media special in the current issue of the magazine, little did we expect to turn to page 89 and find this humble little blog listed as the ‘Best for… organic’.
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Posted May 25th, 2011
We knew it was out there. We knew it was coming. But when, in 2009, the Food Standards Agency and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine sparked something of a trashing of the reputation of organic food in the media, we didn’t have the science to fight back with. Now we do.
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Posted April 7th, 2011
Here is are some links that have caught our eye today and which we consider worth sharing: Talking sense or stating the obvious? Countryfile presenter and farmer Adam Henson has been sharing his views on the need for farmers to be better advocates for their industry. It’s a touchy subject that doesn’t go down well…
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Posted March 31st, 2011
Here’s something we haven’t done for a while – our roundup of a some links to news and articles that caught our eye and which we consider worth a bit of your time. If you have any other useful content you think our audience would appreciate, please do add the links in the comments below……
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Posted February 24th, 2011
[While you're reading this try, for effect, to imagine the author sighing at the end of every sentence. Concentrate hard on this task and you will feel the sigh in said author's very demeanor, over and above the audible version...] It’s official then. Organic food is ‘not as good for your health’.
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Posted January 26th, 2011
For once we seem to have received some excellent research results on organic food without everyone trying to cynically rip them apart!
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