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Beneficial insect focus: Spiders – Ben Harrington, Edaphos 591 340 Soilmentor

Beneficial insect focus: Spiders – Ben Harrington, Edaphos

Edaphos offers agronomy services on all types of farms in all situations. Their philosophy is to improve soil and plant health, whilst harnessing the soils stored resources to their full potential to achieve a healthy, well balanced system. Increasing biocontrol on farms by raising awareness of the beneficial insect community could lead to reduced pesticide…

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Want to know more about Regenerative Farming? Here are our top resources! 595 596 Soilmentor

Want to know more about Regenerative Farming? Here are our top resources!

New to all this? These resources are a great place to start: (scroll down for more in-depth info) Short video: What is regenerative agriculture? Still not sure exactly what it means to be a regenerative farmer? This is a great short video to get you up to speed;  the key messages of regenerative farming are…

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The value of biodiversity in agriculture 1024 512 Soilmentor

The value of biodiversity in agriculture

Farmland across the world has potential to host a fantastically complex network of plants and animals, and this complexity provides many ecosystem services that we humans rely on: decomposing our waste, cleaning our water, and purifying our air – not small concerns! Invertebrates such as hoverflies, bees, moths and butterflies pollinate our crops, and others…

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Introducing the biodiversity tool! 2560 1707 Soilmentor

Introducing the biodiversity tool!

With the launch of Soilmentor comes the biodiversity tool – helping you to farm in tune with nature! We’re so excited to be launching the new biodiversity monitoring tool on Soilmentor, which will help you to record the range of different species present on your farm. Our vision of a resilient farm of the future…

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After the rain — How to get more forage from your pasture 2592 1936 Soilmentor

After the rain — How to get more forage from your pasture

This is a guest post by Niels Corfield, soil health, agroforestry and whole farm planning advisor, researcher and advocate. You can find more articles from him on medium. What can we do to capitalise on rain when it comes; so we can get more forage and improve the health of our pasture and animals? I’m…

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Don’t think you’ve got time to go out and dig holes? Think differently! 559 397 Soilmentor

Don’t think you’ve got time to go out and dig holes? Think differently!

What does the future hold for farming? Well, the truth is, we don’t have a crystal hoof! But, there is one way to make our farming enterprises resilient, through the wettest of winters and driest of summers. A way of reducing inputs, increasing biodiversity and building a healthy planet. Farming with a focus on regenerating…

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How to store water in your soil and prevent erosion 4032 3024 Soilmentor

How to store water in your soil and prevent erosion

As the weather in the Northern Hemisphere gets rainier going into the Autumn months, the question of our soils’ relationship with water springs to mind. We know that healthy soils absorb much more water than unhealthy soils, and that healthy soil is less likely to degrade into runoff, but what’s the science behind this? We’ve…

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What is soil health and why should farmers and growers care about it? 2379 1770 Soilmentor

What is soil health and why should farmers and growers care about it?

This is a guest post by Niels Corfield, soil health, agroforestry and whole farm planning advisor, researcher and advocate. You can find more articles from him on medium. In this article I’d like to lay out the main tenets of soil health, but before that I want to present what I feel are the main…

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Soil Science Latest: How Can We Sequester More Carbon and Build Soil Health? 3024 2257 Soilmentor

Soil Science Latest: How Can We Sequester More Carbon and Build Soil Health?

A few weeks ago we presented at Wageningen Soils Conference with Elizabeth Stockdale, Head of Farming, NIAB. We shared about the work we had done together converting the AHDB soils scorecard into an interactive Soil Quality UK Dashboard, with the main focus being “How can we get farmers talking about their soil health, based on…

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Use maps to save your sample locations 4032 3024 Soilmentor

Use maps to save your sample locations

We’re excited that you can now use the GPS mapping feature in both our iPhone and Android apps, to save the exact locations of where you are doing your soil tests in each field. That way you can very easily come back year after year to the same spot and monitor changes in soil health.…

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Defragmenting UK soils policy – the journey so far… 4896 3268 Soilmentor

Defragmenting UK soils policy – the journey so far…

Much of what we do is about empowering farmers in the field to build soil health, but of course we realise that we are all part of a bigger system and government policy can have a massive impact on the way land is farmed. We have always admired the work of the Sustainable Soils Alliance…

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