A group of French and Italian researchers from the Universities of Caen and Verona recently published results from a long-term rat feeding experiment in the scientific journal “Food and Chemical Toxicology” which...
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adminNational Soil Symposium Report 2012
The two day technical event was organised by Soil Association and dedicated to informing and inspiring farmers and growers on the latest thinking and developments in relation to soil management. See the presentations on...
Results of Nafferton soil microbial population study published in PLoS ONE
The results of a three year study into the effects of organic and conventional farming practices on soil microbial diversity have been published by NEFG scientists. Former PhD student Caroline Orr (pictured) used...
Organic Farms Have Better Soil
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...
New video available on TILMAN-ORG results
Researchers from the Nafferton Ecological Farming Group attended the annual meeting of the TILMAN-ORG project at Aston University in Birmingham on January 21 and 22. After the project meeting they had the chance to meet...
Postgraduates For Small and Medium-Sized Businesses
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...
Bees affected by Neonicotinoid chemicals
Newcastle University Researcher, Dr Sally Williamson was interviewed on Radio 4’s Gardeners Question Time last week, as DEFRA decides whether to vote for or against a European-wide ban of this family of pesticides. Dr...
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...
