Thame Monitor Farm Meeting - soil health

Join host Garth Weston, and guest speaker Liz Stockdale – Head of Farming Systems Research (NIAB), who will discuss and update us on the monitor farm since we last visited. After this, we will look in depth at the soil health review, recently completed on the monitor farm. This will include some time in the field looking at Garth’s soils and really answering the burning questions you have about your soils and how to manage them.

Including:  

• Defining soil health 
• Good soil structure 
• Role and benefits of soil organic matter  
• Assessing and benchmarking soils  
• The soil health scorecard  
• Procedure for using the scorecard in the field  
• Interpretation of results based on Thame Monitor Farm soil health review  
• How to improve soil health  
• Strategies for improving soil organic matter:  
• Rotations – grass leys  
• Organic materials  
• Cover crops  
• Tillage  
• Livestock  

If you have a spade to hand, please bring it along for some soil sampling in practice

Refreshments will be served on arrival and Lunch at 1pm   

The event is free to attend, but please register to allow us to cater for you accordingly.  

BASIS and NRoSO points will be available.  

Please bring suitable footwear and wet weather gear for the farm walk.