Crops grown in regenerative systems have a healthier nutritional profile than the same crops grown conventionally, a new study has found.
Popular Countryside Stewardship option AB15 two-year sown legume fallow saw a 9 per cent increase in payment rate this year, guaranteeing growers £569/hectare/year for the five year agreement.
An AHDB PhD student is exploring how root exudates help some cereals to compete with black-grass.
An innovative method of controlling a range of damaging crop diseases using native, beneficial soil bacteria has emerged from a research-industry collaboration.
Íæż½ã½ã face a ‘postcode lottery’ if plans to reward them financially for increasing soil carbon stocks are to be introduced, two leading soil scientists have warned.
Íæż½ã½ã face a postcode lottery if plans to reward them financially for increasing soil carbon stocks are to be introduced, two leading soil scientists have warned.
More farmers are now exploring the potential of living mulches to improve soil health and reduce the need for bagged fertilisers.
Íæż½ã½ã who previously sat on the fence about Countryside Stewardship (CS) should seriously consider the scheme, following the announcement from Defra that payment rates will increase by an average of 30 per cent.
With a focus on agroecological food production, this years Oxford Real Farming Conference discussed the latest research on low input crop management.