Soil analysis and management: final report
I have finally completed the report following my travels, visiting farmers, advisers and researchers in the USA, Denmark and Switzerland....
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Soil Management for Sustainable Food Production and Environmental Protection
Winston Churchill Travel Fellowship 2017
"The health of soil, plant, animal and man is one and indivisible” (Balfour 1943)
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Will soil organic matter save the planet?
Limitations of Soil Carbon Credits I have previously commented on the limited scope for addressing climate change through soil carbon...
Monitoring soil organic matter
NRM Carbon Check soil analysis service NRM is now offering a new Carbon check soil analysis service https://mcusercontent.com/2e76cfe9c55...
Carbon sequestration, soil management and climate change
We are learning as we go along and the latest research adds to the knowledge available when I wrote my blog on Soil Organic Matter and...
Managing soil nutrients in organic vegetable production
A fine crop of organic onions grown from seed. There has much debate recently about the use of green waste compost as a surface mulch for...
To plough, or not to plough?
Soil cultivations: ploughing, non-inversion tillage and soil quality Ploughing has received bad press in organic farming circles due to...
Delivering on net zero: Scottish Agriculture
An interesting report has just been published by WWF Scotland, produced by Nic Lampkin and colleagues , which identifies the potential...
Do you analyse your soil?
I was shocked to hear our Soil Association inspector tell me recently that less than 20% of farms provided soil analysis results at...
Soil and health
Soil Health “The health of soil, plant, animal and human is one and invisible”. That is a very profound statement, indeed in a world...
Do you analyse your soils regularly?
I was shocked to hear our Soil Association inspector tell me recently that less than 20% of farms provided soil analysis results at...
Soil Nutrient Management workshop 12th. July
I will be running a workshop based on the Churchill Fellowship on 12th July, near Newbury. It will include a discussion on the different...
Managing a living soil
Soil Farmer of the Year 2018: Simon Cowell Half a day with Simon recently showed me a level of understanding of soil and its management...
Soil and Sustainable Development Goals
https://www.schweizerbart.de/publications/detail/isbn/9783510654253 In 2015, the UN formulated seventeen global Sustainable Development...
The Nexus of Soils, Plants, Animals and Human Health
Singh, B.R., McLaughlin, M.J., Brevik, E.C. (eds) 2017 The Nexus of Soils, Plants, Animals and Human Health Catena-Schweizerbart,...
Soil Organic Matter and its role in climate change mitigation
Soil Organic Matter and its role in climate change mitigation Soil organic matter (SOM) is the focus of much attention in both organic...
Switzerland: does organic farming enhance soil fertility?
“For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soil?” Edward Goff, organic dairy farmer, with acknowledgment...
Soil management conference
World Wide Agriculture Conference on soil management including a focus on Albrecht Base Cation Saturation Ratio analysis and management...
Soil management in Denmark
Soil Management in Denmark My travels took me to Denmark because the country has a highly developed agriculture research and advisory...
Increasing Profits With Regenerative Agriculture ACRES USA presentation
“We know we know so little about soil bacteria, but what we think we know might not even be correct” John Kempf. Summary John Kempf. An...
Neil Kinsey on drought management
Fertility for growing under dry conditions Notes from a conference presentation. “Upon this handful of soil our survival depends”--...
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