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Contents tagged with soil structure
14 July 2020
Interested in your soil health? This will be a practical session looking at how to assess your soil structure, using a VESS assessment, and your earthworm numbers across the farm. Use this information to inform management practices and hear how this has been put into practice on the AHDB Strategic Farms. Led by Anne Bhogal, ADAS, this will provide a hands on guide to what is needed in-field, a forum to ask your questions and the resources to carry it out for your farm business.
24 September 2018
How to identify good and bad arable soil structure
27 September 2022
This factsheet outlines a simple method for measuring infiltration in the field. It also explains how adding organic matter to soil can improve soil structure and water infiltration.