On April 21st, Professor Carlo Leifert was the keynote speaker for the ‘Future of Organic’ panel at the 2016 Food Tank Summit in Washington D.C. Professor Leifert presented results from NEFG’s recent studies on the...
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adminLandbridge SIP Workshop at Nafferton 8th September
The landbridge network is hosting a workshop at Nafferton farm on Thursday, 8th September 2016 to consider the role for advisers in integrated farm management for sustainable intensification. Landbridge is a knowledge...
The Summer of Cereals
We are nearing the end of harvest at Nafferton, and closing out our busiest cereal season in recent memory. NEFG managed trials of spelt, rye, spring wheat, winter wheat, spring barley, buckwheat and quinoa this...
Wheat breeding and bread-making seminar at Newcastle University 27th October
Dr Stephen Jones of Washington State University will be visiting Newcastle next week and will present a lecture at the School of Agriculture on Thursday, 27th October at 5pm. Dr Jones is a wheat breeder and the Director...
Prof Carlo Leifert and NEFG featured in German documentary
The German channel 3SAT/ARD produced a documentary filmed throughout Europe, which includes interviews with Carlo Leifert and footage of the Nafferton field trials. The NEFG-led nutritional work is featured quite...
NEFG at the Oxford Real Farming Conference
The Oxford Real Farming Conference will take place this year on 4-5 January 2017 and Professor Carlo Leifert and Dr Marcin Baranski will present NEFG research. Additional details can be found on the conference website...
New Glyphosate Study to start the New Year
A new study published on 9 January 2017 shows that glyphosate may cause liver disease when ingested at very low levels by rats. The King’s College study concludes as follows: “The results of the study presented here...
Presentations from the 2017 Oxford Real Farming Conference
The Oxford Real Farming Conference has made all PowerPoints, audio recordings and films from the 2017 conference available online through the ORFC 2017 Archive. Professor Carlo Leifert was a part of the panel titled...
MSc Perennial Crops Field Course in Crete
MSc students with some of our Cretan hosts, the NEFG team and guests at the group’s final meal in Crete (Photo Credit Oduwole Olatunde) From 23 May to 6 June, 26 MSc students from programmes in the Newcastle University...
Latest from the Sustainable Intensification Platform
The Sustainable Intensification Platform (SIP), a DEFRA scheme, has released its second newsletter with updates on a variety of projects and events within the platform. Nafferton is one of the five study farms included...
