October 2025 Newsletter
Our October newsletter is out! Highlights from RVF’s October 2025 newsletter: a cover‑crop webinar, new technical advisor in Canada, the EU’s new soil monitoring directive, practical tools for cover‑crop selection, and lots and lots of global 1BC events.
The big and urgent stuff:
• Webinar: Climate Talk on Cover Crops — sign up here
• Announcement: Felix Egerer joins RVF as Technical Advisor in Canada; interview here
• Policy: EU adopts soil monitoring directive — details here
• Top 50 Farmers — nominate or apply here
In the news:
• UC Davis cover‑crop selection tools here
• Regen certification overview (and RVF’s page about it)
• Green Cover’s “Cover Crops 101” free download here
• First Voltis harvest in Champagne here
• Jason Haas on 1BC here
• France bans 20 copper fungicides here
• Napa Green and RVF launch 1BC — coverage here
Dates for your diary:
• Old Vine Conference 2025 — 31 Oct–4 Nov, California — info here
• PIWI World Summit — 8–9 Nov 2025, Berlin — info here
• UK 1BC virtual info session — 10 Nov — here; First field day — 20 Nov — here
• Napa 1BC launch — 18–19 Nov 2025 — info here
• Texas 1BC launch — 18 Nov 2025 — here
• 1BC Western Cape field day — 20 Nov — here
• Sommet Agroecologie Bordeaux — 20 Nov — info here
• Tasting Climate Change — 18–20 Jan 2026 — info here
• Embracing Hybrid Grapes — 26 Jan 2026 — info here
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