Digging deeper: Understanding soils for crop performance and long-term resilience

Soil is one of the farm's most valuable assets, influencing crop performance, nutrient availability, resilience to weather extremes and long-term profitability.

Join soil specialist David Purdy for an interactive AHDB field event exploring how to:

• Assess soil condition
• Understand the relationship between soil chemistry and plant nutrition
• Identify practical management changes that support healthier soils

Through a combination of field-based demonstrations, discussion and technical insight, attendees will gain a deeper understanding of how soil structure, biology, pH and redox conditions influence nutrient cycling, root development and crop performance

Whether you are looking to improve nutrient use efficiency, build resilience into cropping systems or better understand the processes occurring beneath the soil surface, this event will provide practical take-home messages that can be applied on farm.

Key learning outcomes:

• Assess soil structure and function in the field
• Understand how soil conditions influence nutrient availability and uptake
• Explore the role of pH and redox processes in crop nutrition
• Identify practical management actions that support soil health and productivity
• Improve decision-making around cultivation, nutrition and organic matter management

Please register to book your place.

A light buffet lunch will be provided at The Vine. 

Please bring suitable footwear and clothing for a field walk.

BASIS and NRoSO points will be available.

David Hunter
Senior Knowledge Exchange Manager - National Engagement - Cereals & Oilseeds