OF&G's National Organic Combinable Crops 2021

OF&G's National Organic Combinable Crops 2021 - report now online

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UPDATE - We are going ahead  #NOCC21 6 July

We continue with our event plan - 
* A limit to the number who can book
* All talks & the farm walk recorded & posted online afterwards

Booking forms going out this week - first to those who are on the waiting list.

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We are very pleased to announce that John and Alice Pawsey and family will be welcoming guests to their mixed organic arable and sheep farm at Shimpling in Suffolk on 6 July 2021.

This annual on-farm conference began in 2008 and is a popular event with delegates and speakers coming from all over the UK and beyond.

We are planning to hold the event as an in-person on-farm conference with a cap of one hundred guests which will help us be able to provide sufficient capacity to ensure everybody’s safety.

Event convenor will again be the respected broadcaster Charlotte Smith.

Proceedings will all be recorded on video.

We will be posting conference material online in the days and weeks following the event with presentations and discussions and as always the farm walk.

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Catering will be supplied by Henrietta Inman and the team from the bakery at Wakelyns Organic Agroforestry farm.

If you would like to reserve a delegate place or a trade stand please send an email to admin@ofgorganic.org with the subject line NOCC21 delegate or NOCC21 trade stand.

John Pawsey speaking to one of the groups on the farm walk at OF&G's NOCC15

This year we will also be joined by Mark Russell from Carter Jonas who will be speaking on contracts and markets.

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We will also hear from -

Defra's Future Farming team

the Organic Trade Board

the Organic Research Centre

and NIAB who will be on site to talk about seeds and soils.

If you want to talk to us about a project you would like to present or you have a product, a machine or device you would like us to consider demonstrating and if your business would like to look into opportunities to support and sponsor NOCC21 please contact event coordinator and OF&G business development manager, Steven Jacobs.

OF&G's National Organic Combinable Crops 2021 - report now online

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Last year John Pawsey became our virtual host with contributions from farmers, researchers and advisors including Mark Lea, Green Acres Farm in Shropshire, Phil Howell, NIAB, Emily Pope from the AHDB and colleagues from the Organic Research Centre, the AHDB, Clive Bailye, TWB Farms and of course our host John Pawsey and our wonderful chairperson and NOCC convenor, Charlotte Smith.

OF&G's NOCC was last held as an in-person conference in 2019 at OF&G chairman and lifetime organic farmer Richard Thompson's mixed arable and pig farm in Yorkshire - https://ofgorganic.org/news/bred-for-organic

A Case Study focusing on John's business features in OF&G's Organic Arable Farming: Information for farmers considering conversion to organic production - https://assets.ofgorganic.org/tl-128-organic-arable-farming.3gwpfb.pdf