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Organic Farming Continues to Grow The Autumn 2011 No.16 ORGANICThe journal of the Organic GROWER Growers Alliance IN THIS ISSUE The Turning of the Year News................................................3 With autumn just around the corner and the intense activity of the growing season beginning to calm down, this is the time that most Wakelyns.Agroforestry.open.day...9 growers start to reflect on the season so far. Here in the North West we have had a far better growing season than the last four were, and Seasonal.reports............................10 I remember the words of a local farmer to me when I first moved to Pilling some 32 years ago now: as farmers, they expected “one good Interview.with.Rob.Haward.........12 year in five”. And so, true to form, we have just had a fairly good year and I hope this has been repeated around the country. A conversation Sárvári.Research.Trust.open.day......14 with growers has highlighted the fact that we have all seen very erratic pollination through till mid July, and have put this down to cold weather Peat-free.growing.media..................16 and less insect activity than normal. We all saw poor yields of early broad beans, courgettes and summer squash, as well as poor early pollination of Sciarid.flies....................................18 tomatoes and French beans inside polytunnels. This has improved a lot in the last five to six weeks, and as such we are now overrun with plagues of Nature.notes:.Soil.Associations....20 horse flies and wasps. It never rains but it pours. Even our local markets are starting to show some increased activity, and Johnny’s.six-row.seeder................21 although sales are at a level of at least 12 years ago, here in the North West we are beginning to get a little more confidence back that people Docks.-.keeping.them.in.check......22 are ignoring the bad press and seeking out local suppliers. This is a time we should all be promoting ourselves, since the big retailers have Building.your.own.house..............24 removed a lot of fresh organically grown produce from their shelves and are thus reporting reduced sales (what did they expect?!). Therefore the Simple.inexpensive.storage...........28 opportunity exists for us to use our greatest asset, which is our holding, to show by example what we can achieve without the use of agrochemicals. Bees.on.your.holding.....................30 We have open days and a promotional campaign planned for September when people return from their holidays and settle down a bit in their Growing.for.caterers.....................32 eating habits as the kids go back to school. We have always seen a good response from promotions at this time of year, when locally grown Profile:.Glebelands.City.Growers.33 produce is still in abundance. We have had two committee meetings since the last OG, and the first in Growing.raspberries......................34 early June saw the appointment of the officers of the OGA. I was re-elected as chairman and Debra, who became a full committee member at this Apprenticeship.corner...................36 Agrokruh.-growing.in.circles.......38 Corporate.organics........................39 Events............................................40 Page 1 - The Organic Grower - No 16 Autumn 2011 year’s AGM, has been re-elected as treasurer. Following on from the continue to come in alongside their subs, so thank you all for your AGM, Pete Dollimore is taking on the role of membership secretary kind words. to ease the workload on Debra and myself, and Roger Hitchings Alan.Schofield,.Chair.OGA has agreed to become general secretary. I see this as a good move and already Roger’s skills as secretary have produced concise, easy to read and action minutes, as well as a document on good governance, which we plan to go through carefully over the coming months to help keep committee work on a well-focused track. The issues we discuss at committee meetings are varied, but to have a set format for the meetings from now on makes my job as chair so much easier. One issue that we feel important is the collaboration between the Soil Association and Garden Organic on continuing the exploration into small-scale certification. We first came across this as the Open Gate scheme proposed to us at the first Harper Adams conference three years ago. This was heavily criticised at the time by the Farmer and Grower Board at the SA, which called for both certifiers to work together on an alternative. This has now happened and yielded a working document. At our next committee meeting in early September we are meeting with Myles and Margi of Garden Organic to discuss this new proposal further. I will keep you all informed as to the progress of these discussions. Another topic discussed at committee was the performance and availability of organic seeds and growing media this year, after we had received a few comments on the matter and considerable forum activity; Jonathan Smith put together an online survey to gauge the feelings of growers across the country. We have had some responses so far, but more would be welcome and also be much more representative a sample for us to work on. So if you have not already done so, please take a moment to fill it in – details are on the website. A full report on the survey will be in the next OG. Following on from Helen Browning’s appointment as the new Come and join us! Soil Association director and her interview in the last OG, we are Join the Organic Growers Alliance and help to build an effective trying to get a meeting with her to discuss horticultural issues. representative organisation for organic horticulture. Benefit With the departure of Phil Stocker (see report on p7), we feel it is your business through increased opportunities for information imperative that the grower community is not forgotten by the SA. exchange and new insights into the craft of growing organically. Phil has been a good friend to growers over the years in his role Enjoy the sense of community that comes from contact with as director of farmer and grower relations, and his replacement other growers! Membership includes entry to all OGA events by an innovations manager (whatever one of those is!) leaves me at cost, subscription to this journal, access to other forms of slightly worried as to whom we can turn to within the charity to communication as they are developed and support from a discuss those matters of importance to growers in the future. recognised representative body in dealing with any regulatory We have been working closely with the SA on the horticultural and bureaucratic problems that may affect your business. symposium, which is in early October in Bristol, as well as with Full membership is open to anyone whose living depends ORC on planning next year’s conference sessions. Discussions on wholly or mainly on commercial organic growing. This includes the latter are still ongoing as we go to press. those employed in practical horticultural research and advice. £25. Following on from my article in the Ecologist, I was approached Associate membership is available to nongrowers who wish by another freelance writer and gave an interview on the OGA, to support the work of the OGA. It covers the same access to which hopefully will appear in The. Smallholder magazine this events and publications, but does not include the right to a vote autumn, as well as a new book being worked upon. in any ballot of members. £25. We are still attracting new members to the OGA, and although not Student membership - as associate membership. £15. a stampede, a steady interest in what we do is being shown. A lot Join online: www.organicgrowersalliance.co.uk of wonderful comments about both the magazine and the website Page 2 - The Organic Grower - No 16 Autumn 2011 Market news Latest Defra organic statistics These decisions are subject to European Commission approval and are intended to ensure ongoing support to existing organic The latest National Statistics produced by Defra on the organic farmers; enabling organic producers to make longer term planning farming sector were released on 11th August 2011, for information decisions about the future of their business. gathered during 2010. The key points were: I have instructed my officials to await the publication of the new • The UK total organic land area fell by 3% between 2009 and Rural Development Regulations before submitting proposals to 2010 to 718,000 ha. me for a new organic maintenance fund within Glastir for the next • The vegetables area (including potatoes) has shown a small RDP period (2014 - 2020). I would expect details of these proposed decrease for the second year running of 5% to 18,000 ha. new arrangements to be available for discussion with the organic sector towards the end of this year.” • For the second year running, the number of organic producer / processors in the UK has shown a slight decrease (4%) to Spain: Organic area growing 7,300 at the end of 2010 which is in line with the reduction One and a half million hectares are under organic agricultural in the total area of organic land. All the UK’s regions have management in Spain and the minister has announced a new shown decreases with Northern Ireland experiencing the action plan for organic food and farming. The organic area largest percentage drop of 14%, and the North West showing continued to grow in 2010 and constituted almost 1.7 million ha the largest percentage drop in England for the second year at the end of the year, an increase of 4% compared with 2009.
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