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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Cover crops may be more important than reduced tillage
My intermittent blog over a number of years has questioned some of the new orthodoxy on soil management, carbon sequestration and soil...
Potential of soils to sequester carbon being seriously overestimated
As readers of my blog will know I have long questioned the claims being made for saving the planet by soil carbon sequestration. Of...
2023 Organic Farm Management Handbook just published
My fellow editors, Nic Lampkin and Susanne Padel, and I have just finished the mammoth task of updating the Organic Farm Management...
Mycorrhizal fungi, ploughing, no-till and glyphosate
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 is not all its cracked up to be
Mob grazing At last we have the answer to demands for increased forage production, higher stocking rates, improved animal health,...
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...
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