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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:

Getting the Most from Your Soil

2012

Welsh Government / EA Wales

Guide to land resources management.

The Soil Code

1998

MAFF / Welsh Office Agriculture Department

A code of good agricultural practice for the protection of soil.