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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. ...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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. ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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This morning brings the news that an advertising agency has been selected by the OrganicUK steering group...
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Planning is under way for the annual producer conference run by the Organic Research Centre – Elm Farm. ...
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Another key step on the (long, slow and somewhat tortuous) route to our Certification Manager, Steve, getting his Farmers Weekly tractor jumper has been achieved. The wool has arrived, courtesy of the lovely Juliet Morris at Ystrad Organics, who is also one of our Twitter friends...
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A few articles have popped up in recent days that caught our attention here and are, for varying reasons, worthy of a look, so we thought we’d share them with you. You never know, it might even become a semi-regular thing – this is a blog after all! G...
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A fascinating day was had by all at our Selling Organics: What’s the Story? conference, held at London’s South Bank University, on Thursday. Pr...