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Soil management

These are the most relevant HGCA publications to the management of soils.

Link Soil2crop - soil management and cultivation practices
Link Sow2succeed - drilling within the context of whole farm planning and risk management
G07 'Precision farming' of cereals - practical guidelines and crop nutrition
TS70 Assessing within-field soil variability
TS65 Reducing costs of establishing and managing wheat
G27 Soil management for sustainable profit 2005

In addition HGCA contributed to the AHRF Soil Management Gateway -www.appliedresearchforum.org.uk/soils  - which is a collaboration between the agricultural levy boards to put together as many aspects as possible about soil. The 6 case studies that HGCA commissioned can be seen below, together with 4 other relevant examples.

AHRF Soil management gateway Case Studies

No. Soil factor Enterprise
 1 Water erosion case study    (219kb) Potatoes, carrots, winter wheat, winter oats, spring barley.
 2 Compaction    (311kb)  Potatoes, outdoor pigs, combinable crops
 3 Wind erosion    (568kb)   Potatoes, onions, carrots, barley, sweet corn, sugar beet, triticale
 4 Compaction      (834kb) Potatoes, winter and spring combinable crops 
 8 Slumping and capping    (693kb) Cereals, oilseeds, beans, potatoes
 9 Water erosion     (173kb) Combinable crops
 10 Wind erosion    (978kb) Combinable crops
 11 Waterlogging    (546kb)  Wheat, barley, oilseed rape, beans
 12 Compaction    (1013kb) Combinable crops
 13 Yield variation    (970kb)   Cereals and dairy

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