Soil

Organisation encouraging everyone to get down on the land in honour of the soil

The report recommended the Government to fund the widespread, standardised testing of soil through its Environmental Land Management schemes and to work with industry on an agreed set of metrics of soil health by next year

REAP Conference delegates urged to embrace technology to combat environmental and economic challenges

Waterlogged grazing is rarely due to the soil type, but is more aligned with management style according to independent adviser Niels Corfield

Defra-funded research project looks to help farmers to understand soil health by listening to the noises made by earthworms

Five farmers agree that getting ‘back to the basics’ and good crop rotations are key to improving soil health and managing grass weeds

A new soil service is designed to help farmers gain understanding of their soil and take practical steps towards protecting and improvement

Want to improve your soils but feel apprehensive about it? Soil Association adviser Katy Jo Stanton has some words of wisdom.

The second article in the grassland guide looks at how to achieve optimal fertiliser responses from your soils and how to utilise the nutrient content of farmyard manure

The first in a series of articles looking at the fundamentals of grassland management to help maximise farm productivity and performance.