by Jonathan Holmes | Apr 15, 2021 | Soil
Five years I was asked to help investigate problems on a farm where the son had taken over a few years before and had been moving away from a plough-based system into organic manure applications, a minimum tillage regimen, and was considering cover crops. He...
by Jonathan Holmes | Jan 11, 2021 | Soil
I have long been advocating the imperative to match cultivation strategy to soil type as in the schematic below. The photographs later in this article highlight this concept really well. They certainly demonstrate what the cost is of implementing inappropriate...
by Jonathan Holmes | Dec 8, 2020 | Soil
Improving farm soil to align with the Agriculture Bill – find out what is happening in your soil. The Agriculture Bill legislation introduces a new land management system that will replace the Basic Payment Scheme subsidy system over the next seven years. It...
by Jonathan Holmes | Sep 2, 2020 | Grassland Management, Soil
Most cover crops these days are implemented for two reasons. To cope with an infestation of graminicide resistant black grass or ryegrass. Or, to restructure soil. Although they are usually recommended for these two different purposes, they can be interchangeable....
by Jonathan Holmes | Feb 5, 2020 | Soil
The UK’s new Agriculture Bill, described as ‘one of the most important environmental reforms for many years’, will reward British farmers who protect soil. The Bill, which received its second reading in the House of Commons on 3 February 2020, will replace the EU’s...
