earthworms

One of our over-arching pieces of current research is the Morley Soil and Agronomic Monitoring Study (SAMS). We have put together this explanation of what it is, does and hopes to discover and share. In the last decade, yield mapping (especially for combinable crops) has been rolled out across...

Brian Barth Among the top climate-change culprits, agriculture finally attempts to address the issue, via a series of holistic methods called carbon farming. 9KSHARES Michael Pollan deemed it agriculture’s “secret weapon” in a December op-ed for the Washington Post. Bill McKibben, in his...

Joel Williams describes the biology of healthy soil and why fungi play such an important role in carbon sequestration Soils are vast and complex living ecosystems, teeming with an incredible diversity of micro and macro- organisms that function together and comprise the...

I recognized the blackgrass was becoming a greater and greater challenge. It infected our wheat fields every year, always doing more damage and hurting our yields. We tried to kill it with crop-protection products, but the more we spent on inputs the less we seemed in charge. Blackgrass...

How can the nature value of farmland be boosted so that it becomes attractive again for insects and birds, but without farmers feeling the pinch in their pockets? Researchers and scientists from fifteen European countries will be looking for answers to that question over the next few years...

RESOURCE EXPLAINED: Growing food and fibre crops requires soils to be maintained in a way that provides optimal soil structure, water retention and nutrient availability. An integrated approach that combines assessing the physical, chemical and biological properties of soil is needed for...

Abstract This paper reviews the current knowledge of the effects of non-inversion tillage (NIT) on farmland birds and their food resources. NIT is a method of establishing a crop without using a mouldboard plough and is becoming increasingly popular in the UK. NIT generally disturbs the soil to...

Intro to Harry's Farm Welcome to Harry's Farm, my new YouTube channel dedicated to the workings of our farm in the Cotswolds. As the months tick by, I'll take you through harvest, crop planning for the 2020 harvest, Brexit, why earthworms are the arable farmer's best friend and much, much more.

Ed's Carbon Farming Diary - Episode 1: Welcome to the Farm Welcome to Ed's farm! 🧑‍🌾 In this episode, Ed gives us an overview of what carbon farming looks like on his farm. "Carbon farming for us is changing the way we establish our crops and some of the management techniques in order to...

Are they still there. Because I cannot find any. Even down to 12 inches. Will they reappear or are they dead with this moisture loss In the ground. ????

As millions of hectares are cropped each year, farmers strive to manage their land sustainably. For many of them, farming and biodiversity are already compatible goals. Crop rotation, reduced tillage systems and other good agricultural practices can integrate biodiversity and production goals...

Written by Richard Halleron from Agriland Farmers are being asked to check for middens – tennis ball-sized plugs constructed by earthworms – when monitoring their soils. New research, led by Scotland’s Rural University College (SRUC), has found these plugs made of straw, plant debris and...

Abstract: Agricultural intensification has increased crop yields, but at high economic and environmental cost. Harnessing ecosystem services of naturally occurring organisms is a cheaper but under-appreciated approach, because the functional roles of organisms are not...

Earthworms play an important role in soil health. Farmers are being asked to check for middens – tennis ball-sized plugs constructed by earthworms – when monitoring their soil. New research, led by SRUC, has found these plugs made of straw, plant debris and stones, cover up to 42 per cent...

As above. I would have thought that the traditional mixed farming system ,utilising Grass leys for livestock, and then planting cereals into those leys is the same as regenerative farming :scratchhead: I am obviously missing something?? Is it the economics of the system , especially if one is...

Not so long ago cows and livestock in general were being blamed for the supposed climate crisis. Now supposedly farm yard manure is the answer to save the planet do the powers that be even realise where muck comes from I wonder. Ideal scenario for them would be genetically modified trees that...

Never used the stuff myself, but stumbled upon this bbc article which may be interesting to some, apologies if its been posted before https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-60836892

Having used a Dale drill successfully for 20 years of notillage leaving all straw chopped on the surface with a mix of autumn and spring sown cash crops . I have come to the conclusion that a notillage idealist approach is maybe not the answer and we have to be flexible to aerating the soil...

It's a bit early really, but we've just started selling tickets to this years show (22/23rd June 2022). Every year I tell everyone that they shouldn't hang about too long as we're going to sell out and this years no different. We've got room this year for a few more (post covid), but there's a...