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National Organic Conference: Setting the seed for better organic varieties

Collaboration was a key theme of this year’s National Organic Conference. Alice Dyer went along.

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One of the many challenges of being an organic farmer is that crop varieties suited to such systems are few and far between. Investment in organic breeding is low both because it is not only deemed a small...

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