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16 July 2024
Create an at-a-glance snapshot of soil health. Download the scorecard for England and Wales (below) and get the tool for Scotland.
3 December 2024
Regular soil tests and the recommendations associated with them are vital tools that must be used in order to ensure the best possible crop yield
3 December 2024
Biological soil health testing is a useful method of quantifying the impact of different soil management practices such as the use of cover crops.
24 January 2019
Find out about indicators that could help you test the health of your soil
3 December 2024
The ‘thinksoils’ manual is a practical guide to soil assessment. It aims to help farmers, land managers, government and non-government advisers to recognise problems with erosion and runoff from agricultural land. Our changing climate makes this issue increasingly important.
17 December 2018
The AHDB GREATsoils programme has been signposted as a vital resource and tool for growers as part of two new soil qualifications from BASIS
29 November 2018
Drain maintenance has been ignored for too long, AHDB’s Warrington Monitor Farm group heard on 7 November 2018.
28 November 2018
Like many farmers around the UK, one of Rob Fox’s main challenges is to continue improving soil.
6 March 2025
A bonus podcast episode from AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds looks at the latest in practical soil health research.
13 November 2018
AHDB’s Pembrokeshire Monitor Farm met on Wednesday 7 November to look in depth at different cultivation strategies and the impact they have on the soils. We spoke to three of the group to find out more…
13 November 2018
AHDB’s Petworth Monitor Farm group reignited two popular debates at their recent meeting (18 October 2018): discs versus tines and ‘to till or not to till’.
