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Organic Farming Update

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author Gemma Clarke, Cope Seeds

2014 will see the minimum organic content of grass seed mixtures, required to get an automatic derogation rise from 65% to 70%. This implies that there should be reasonable stocks of Organic grass seed available next year although it will be interesting to see whether or not stocks of the right species and the right varieties will be available. In the past couple of years for instance, the lack of Organic Hybrid Ryegrass has meant that it has been... 

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Organic Market Update

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author Gemma Clarke, Cope Seeds

As someone who has a keen interest in the organic sector of agriculture, I was pleased to see the ‘horsegate’ scandal come to the forefront of the public’s attention earlier this year. This made consumers not only across the UK but the whole of Europe focus on their food and the long chains associated with its production. Although the UK organic market has still shown an annual decline of 1.5% (2012), recent figures from Kantar Worldpanel show...