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The Centre for Ecology and Hydrology looked at microscopic fungi in the soil that helps plants grow. The study of nine farms in England, published in the journal Environmental Microbiology, found that organic farms have...
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Newcastle University is managing a new placement scheme for postgraduate students in science, technology, engineering and agriculture. Due to their ERDF funding they are able to subsidise placements for masters and...
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Conservation Tillage for the New Generation
Conservation Tillage for the New Generation Steve Townsend, of Soil First Farming, lead agronomist an adviser and member of the BASE-UK group gave a lecture to undergraduate agriculture students at Newcastle recently on...
Seralini republishes paper on the long-term toxicity of a Roundup herbicide and a Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize
Professor Gilles-Eric Séralini and research team at the French research institute, CRIIGEN, has republished a paper that was published in the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology in September 2012 and then subsequently...
Study of Organic Crops Finds Fewer Pesticides and More Antioxidants – New York Times July 2014
An Newcastle University led scientific review of 343 peer-reviewed studies looking at the composition of crops and foods has concluded organic crops had higher levels of certain antioxidants, such as polyphenols, which...
“Nearly two-thirds of the bread you eat contains pesticides residues” – Pesticide Action Network UK
A report released today by PAN UK in conjunction with the Organic. Naturally Different campaign, reveals that nearly two-thirds (61.5%) of bread products tested by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs...
