16 July 2024

The soil health scorecard

Create an at-a-glance snapshot of soil health. Download the scorecard for England and Wales (below) and get the tool for Scotland.

6 June 2019

Traffic lights and an MOT could save Britain’s soils

To help improve British soils, a system akin to traffic lights and an MOT is in development as part of an Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) research partnership.

23 May 2019

Research Case Study: Testing the effect of organic material additions on soil health

Soil Biology and Soil Health Partnership research case study takes a closer look at the benefits of organic material additions

18 April 2019

Increasing profitability from pasture: Staffordshire

Join AHDB Beef & Lamb and independent sheep and beef consultant Dr Liz Genever for a workshop looking at soil and grass management to improve animal performance and farm profitability. The workshop will focus on measuring and monitoring grass growth and quality, and the infrastructure required to improve grazing strategies.

24 January 2019

January health check for soil indicators

Find out about indicators that could help you test the health of your soil

1 February 2019

Soil Health Webinar

Blair McKenzie, James Hutton Institute will give a scientific perspective on inversion versus non-inversion cultivation.

8 February 2019

Healthy soils, healthy crops: Truro Monitor Farm

16 October 2019

thinksoils

The ‘think soils’ 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.