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Watch: SFI webinar for organic farmers

Posted by: Becky Briggs, Posted on: 4 October 2023 - Categories: Sustainable Farming Incentive, Things we're doing, Webinars
This is part of a pedigree herd of Sussex Cattle owned by a local farmer who is completely organic. He farms Cattle, Sheep and grows arable crops

On 13 October, we held a webinar on the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) for organic farmers and growers in partnership with the English Organic Forum. In this post, you'll find a link to a recording of the webinar.

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Farm visit: Challacombe Farm on Dartmoor

Posted by: Sarah Blatchford, Posted on: 4 November 2021 - Categories: A view from the farm, Things we're doing, Things we've learned

Farm visits are a useful way for us to understand the context in which farmers work and what’s important to them. In this post, I'd like to share what I learned during a recent visit to Challacombe Farm on Dartmoor.

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