Other agricultural milestones
- Jan-1833
Humus Theory
Von Thaer: an early humus advocate - Jan-1840
Liebig publishes
The start of reductionist agriculture - Jan-1843
Rothampsted
Long term field trial starts - Dec-1873
Sir Albert Howard
Organic Pioneer - May-1879
Maye Bruce
QR creator - Mar-1888
H J Massingham
Kinship in Husbandry - Jan-1893
Aubrey Westlake
Soil Association founding member - Jan-1896
Lord Northbourne
Promoter of BD - Jan-1897
Laurence Easterbrook
BGoAJ founder - May-1898
Lord Lymington
Organic advocate - Jul-1898
Lady Eve Balfour
Founder of Soil Association - Aug-1898
Jerome Rodale
US organic practitioner - Sep-1900
W E Shellwell-Cooper
Waltham Abbey, Essex - Jan-1901
First successful tractor
Dan Albone - Jan-1909
Nitrogen synthesis
For fertiliser and bombs - Aug-1911
E F Schumacher
Soil Association president - Jan-1913
Bosch Makes Haber process viable
Nitrogen fixation industrialised - Jan-1922
Men of the Trees
Tree planter extraordinaire - Jan-1926
Peckham Experiment
Food and health link shocker! - Jan-1930
Albert Howard returns to the UK
.. and he's concerned - Jan-1931
The Waste Products of Agriculture
Howard and Wad - Jan-1937
Middle Wallop Conference
An early meeting of organic pioneers - Jan-1939
Haughley Experiment
Demonstration / experiment - Jan-1939
Farleigh Experiment
Comparison of BD, organic and chemical agriculture - Jan-1939
Northbourne to Switzerland
Organises Betteshanger summer school - Jul-1939
Betteshanger Summer School
Pfeiffer teaches BD in the UK - Jan-1940
The Labouring Earth
BD Soil survey - Jan-1940
Maye Bruce and The Chase Catalogue
Quick Return - Jan-1940
An Agricultural Testament
Seminal Howard - May-1940
Look To the Land
Man is dependent on the soil for his life - Jan-1942
Laurence Hills visits Sleights Farm
HDRA meets BDA - Jan-1943
England Herself
Rolf Gardiner on English Regionalism - Jan-1946
Soil Association
Formed in Suffolk - Jan-1946
Common Sense Compost Making
Miss Bruce publishes - Aug-1947
Agriculture Bill
Guaranteed prices for farmers - Sep-1948
Organic Husbandry
Survey from the big guns - Jan-1950
Green Revolution
Third agricultural revolution - Jul-1950
Kinship of Husbandry Meeting
Road trip around Albion - Jul-1950
Rolf Gardiner Lecture
Kinship in Husbandry - Jan-1958
HDRA starts
Laurence and Cherry Hills - Sep-1962
Silent Spring
Awareness par excellence - Jan-1972
IFOAM initiated
International Cooperation - Jan-1974
First transgenic animal
Transgenic mouse - Jan-1978
DOK trial begins
And it's still going - Jan-1983
First Transgenic Plant
GM Tobacco - Sep-1987
Agroecology
Towards sustainable agriculture - Mar-1988
Permaculture- A Designer’s Manual
Galvanising Publication - Jan-1990
BSE
Mad English cows - Jul-1996
Dolly The Sheep
Famous UK cloned pioneer - Feb-2001
Foot and Mouth
Resist the man - Jan-2018
The Global History of Organic Farming
Gregory Barton