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9 September 2010
Agro-forestry workshop in South Devon
This is a unique opportunity to meet with the UK leaders in agro-forestry research and practice...

12 September 2010
Guided farm trail walk
We are holding a guided walk around our beautiful farm trail...

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29 July 2010
Recognition of Sacrifices and Commitment
On Friday 16th July, Bernward Geier, former Director of IFOAM, presented ORC with ...

1 January 2010
An IOTA review of organic research
The series of IOTA Technical Leaflets provides a summary of the key practical farming recommendations arising from organic research...

Improving perfromance of arable crops

Category: Research
9 August 2004

To improve the performance of arable organic cropping systems by identifying acceptable changes in practice which increase the availability of nitrogen for crop uptake and decrease losses of nitrogen to the environment. These aims will ensure that organic agriculture will be able to continue to maintain soil fertility, reduce pollution and ensure that foodstuff of high nutritional quality and sufficient quantity will be produced. For the full article please click here.

Keywords: Arable cropping nitrogen soil fertility pollution nutritional quality DEFRA ADAS University of Nottingham IOR rotations P K OFO178 manure ley legume OFO114 stockless

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