Opening Plenary

• Opening Plenary – The changing policy environment and impacts on organic producers

Workshop 1

• Soil Structure, biological activity and management.
• Ruminants: feeding for health and profit?
• Climate change and sustainability: tools to improve farm performance.

Workshop 2

• Arable and field veg: improving yield through better soil management.
• Novel horticultural crops and genetic resources.
• Non-ruminants: Feeding from the range and alternative feeds.
• Communicating with consumers: the Farmer-Consumer Partnership project and ethical values.

Workshop 3

• Reduced tillage systems and energy use.
• Horticulture: Protected cropping and related topics.
• ‘AssureWel’: Advancing animal welfare assurance through the certification process.
• Closing cycles: re-visiting the case for sewage sludge and green manure composts.

Workshop 4

• Developing the arable market with quality production.
• Local groups – are they the future?
• The role of livestock in food production.
• Biodiversity, ecosystem services and agroforestry.

Closing Plenary

• Closing Plenary – Developing the organic market and engaging with consumers.

The full Conference progamme is available to download as a PDF (260kb).