I have finally completed the report following my travels, visiting farmers, advisers and researchers in the USA, Denmark and Switzerland....

Recently there has been much promotion of no-till. In conventional farming that predictably involves the use of Roundup (Glyphosate),...

A restatement of the natural science evidence base concerning grassland management, grazing livestock and soil carbon storage...

My intermittent blog over a number of years has questioned some of the new orthodoxy on soil management, carbon sequestration and soil...

As readers of my blog will know I have long questioned the claims being made for saving the planet by soil carbon sequestration. Of...

My fellow editors, Nic Lampkin and Susanne Padel, and I have just finished the mammoth task of updating the Organic Farm Management...

Shallow ploughing at Cow Hall Readers of my blog will know my support of the shallow plough, in the face of spurious accusations of...

Mob grazing At last we have the answer to demands for increased forage production, higher stocking rates, improved animal health,...

Limitations of Soil Carbon Credits I have previously commented on the limited scope for addressing climate change through soil carbon...

NRM Carbon Check soil analysis service NRM is now offering a new Carbon check soil analysis service https://mcusercontent.com/2e76cfe9c55...

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...

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...

Soil cultivations: ploughing, non-inversion tillage and soil quality Ploughing has received bad press in organic farming circles due to...

An interesting report has just been published by WWF Scotland, produced by Nic Lampkin and colleagues , which identifies the potential...

I was shocked to hear our Soil Association inspector tell me recently that less than 20% of farms provided soil analysis results at...

Soil Health “The health of soil, plant, animal and human is one and invisible”. That is a very profound statement, indeed in a world...

I was shocked to hear our Soil Association inspector tell me recently that less than 20% of farms provided soil analysis results at...

I will be running a workshop based on the Churchill Fellowship on 12th July, near Newbury. It will include a discussion on the different...

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...

https://www.schweizerbart.de/publications/detail/isbn/9783510654253 In 2015, the UN formulated seventeen global Sustainable Development...