LiveOat 2022 Feb 24, 2023 News & Updates Organic Arable, Dominic Amos Ahead of the new 2023 spring season, the results of the 2022 spring oat variety trials have now been published and can be found at the following link: None [1]* LiveOat Final Report * Varieties Isab... Read more
Spring Oat and Bean Trials Feb 19, 2023 News & Updates Organic Arable, Dominic Amos We're looking for volunteers to host our spring oat and spring bean variety trials this season. We hope you value this kind of work, and see the benefit for the organic arable sector. These trials can... Read more
Market Update 18th February 2022 Feb 19, 2023 News & Updates Organic Arable, Andrew Trump Over in Nuremburg this week the annual Biofach trade fair has taken place. This brings together organic supply chains policy makers and others for four days of information exchange and discussion. W... Read more
Big Farmland Bird Count Feb 19, 2023 News & Updates Organic Arable, Dominic Amos * A spot of Bird Watching * Andrew and I were out doing a spot of "twitching" on Friday as part of the GWCT Big Farmland Bird Count. We know Organic farming makes a huge contribution to Biodiversity ... Read more
Bean Event Feb 2023 Feb 19, 2023 Organic Arable blog Organic Arable, Dominic Amos Hi All, slightly overdue but please find access to the presentations that were delivered on the day. You can find Andrew's market report, the two breeders presentations by Michael from LSPB and Robin ... Read more
Grazing Winter Cereals Feb 10, 2023 News & Updates Organic Arable, Dominic Amos This week, inspired by a recent farm visit to Grange Farm near Tewkesbury, I am going to discuss the practice of sheep grazing cereals in late winter as an agronomic tool for crop management. Once con... Read more
KWS Organic Team Feb 3, 2023 News & Updates Organic Arable, Andrew Trump It was great to have the opportunity to meet and discuss the UK organic cereal sector with the organic team from KWS this week. Dom and I met Jenny Matthiesen at the Liveseeding project meeting last a... Read more
Field Bean Knowledge Transfer Event Feb 3, 2023 News & Updates Organic Arable, Dominic Amos We had a great day in Radway, Warwickshire on Wednesday at our Bean Knowledge Transfer day. that was well attended and well received. We had the great and the good from the organic bean growing world ... Read more
Big Farmland Bird Count 2023 Jan 27, 2023 Organic Arable blog Organic Arable, Andrew Trump On 10th February 2023 Dom and I are going to participate in the Big Farmland Bird Count and we'd love you to join us. We believe that organic farming delivers significant biodiversity benefits and ha... Read more
Market Update 27th January 2023 Jan 27, 2023 News & Updates Organic Arable, Andrew Trump The two big beasts in the organic world the US and Germany with €45 and €12 Billion in retail sales respectively [Source: IFOAM The World of organic agriculture – statistics and emerging trends 2021] ... Read more
Spring Seed Rates Jan 22, 2023 News & Updates Organic Arable, Dominic Amos With Spring drilling fast approaching and seed orders coming in thick and fast I thought it might be pertinent to discuss a simple but important question. What seed rate to use? Of co... Read more
Market Update 20th January 2023 Jan 22, 2023 News & Updates Organic Arable, Andrew Trump Recently we highlighted the Sustain report " Unpicking Food Prices [1] " which examines the proportion of the retail price of food items is paid to the farmer with eyes immediately scanning down to fi... Read more