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Soil Guidance

A wide variety of publicly available (online) soil management guidance has developed over the last twenty years to help farmers measure, monitor, manage and improve their soils.  It has been developed and promoted by a wide variety of organisations - Defra, NGOs, trade bodies – even supermarkets.

We have looked to collate and present a library of the most recent and authoritative of these resources alongside relevant background detail (date, organisation responsible etc.) here:

2018

AHDB

Advice for avoiding and reducing compaction due to livestock.

2016

AHDB

Information on methods for evaluating soil health.

2013

Quality Meat Scotland (QMS)

Guidance for soil and grassland.

2011

LEAF

A guide to assessing soil quality.

2007

EA / AHDB

The ‘think soils’ manual is a practical guide to soil assessment.

2007

AHDB

Helping you protect your soil and improve its productivity.