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Obviously, the headline refers to a ‘pee bale’. What else? Staff at the National Trust Wimpole Estate attracted quite some attention recently with the story of their open-air, non-flushing, recyclable, compostable, loo-with-a-view. In...
Sometimes you’re just left scratching your head. Here’s a simple scenario: BBC One’s Countryfile does a piece looking at the state of the market for organic food. Fair enough. In i...
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...
Taiwan is marking its Organic Agriculture Day today and there are some comments from the Speaker of the country’s legislature that sum up a few key issues, as reported in the Taiwan News. Much like what we heard at our Selling Organics: What’s the Story? co...
Sometimes, having to adhere to strict regulation can seem burdensome. However, especially when it comes to food, we have adapted and accepted the need for safeguards and reassurances...
We’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. ...
Champion pumpkin by Katie Owens Judges comments: An instant winner when the photo landed in the judges’ inbox, the top pumpkin drew admiring oohs and ahhs from other FW journalists who were hanging around Caroline’s desk trying to pilfer her box of walnut whips. Tr...
The pumpkin competition judging is complete. It’s a very tense time here at The Old Estate Yard. Seriously, I’m being harassed for the result. (S...
Here are some of today’s more interesting and useful news and opinion pieces we’ve been looking at: Saudia Arabia is in the process of setting up an organic farming structure and, judging by this piece, they’re going about it in all the right ways. The ...
The photos of our pumpkin carving competition entries are now with the judges at Farmers Weekly, who have kindly agreed to adjudicate on this important matter! So, before they come up with a final decision, a chance for everyone else to compare and contrast...
With our own staff madly slicing away for an in-house competition, we’ve been treated to some fine examples of the dark art of pumpkin carving from some of our friends too. ...
It’s with great pleasure that we can reveal the OF&G Pumpkin Caper has been elevated to new levels with the involvement of expert independent judges. Well, I say ‘expert’, by which I mean Caroline Stocks, deputy news editor of Farmers Weekly, and Isabel Davies, Farmers Weekly community editor. Caro...
Time again to share some of the interesting/amusing/ridiculous things we’ve been reading today. First off, and of most significance, is the Farmers Weekly exclusive on yet another Rural Payments Agency cock-up, namely the loss of 100,000 farmers’ bank details. Ve...
Always game for a laugh, a bunch of OF&G staffers have now accepted the challenge to create the best pumpkin carving as a way to bring fulfilment to their lives following the end of the sunflower competition...
Interestingly, following on from the last post, a new Defra-backed report has emerged which suggests that shoppers have a perception of organic food and farming that is beyond the practical requirements of the regulations...
