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