Soil

With greener fertilisers and other new technologies on the horizon, there is hope for farmers aiming for net zero.

Farmers moving to non-inversion tillage and direct drilling need to ensure their soil structure is good to avoid releasing nitrous oxide into the atmosphere.

Soil health should be considered a strategic asset, critical for maintaining not only food, but societal security.

Soil health should be considered a strategic asset, critical for maintaining not only food, but societal security.

A new series of guides which contain real-life, practical advice to help farmers and land managers manage their soils more sustainably has been produced by UK Soil Health Initiative.

Green peer Natalie Bennett has kick-started a Parliamentary battle to put soil at the heart of the Environment Bill.

Staying legal and the opportunity to retainuse ofactivesfor longer are good reasons to reduce spray drift. Marianne Curtis reports.

Brewing business Heineken UK is launching a farm trial to explore how one of the main ingredients of beer, barley, can be grown in a more sustainable way to help reduce CO2 emissions.

A new tool has been introduced to help growers reduce the risk of water pollution and the loss of pulse and potato post-emherbicide,bentazone.

A long-term trial into seed-borne disease in cereals has seen bunt and loose smut re-emerge after just two years without seed treatments.