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Soil management

These ongoing projects relate to the work that HGCA has commissioned in relation to soil management.

Click on the titles for an upshot of the problem to be addressed, the aims, the approach and the benefits to the industry. Also will be attached the latest information in the form of Annual Project Reports (APRs) or Interim Reports.

RD-2006-3287 Better estimation of the efficiency of use of soil nitrogen
This project aims to improve estimation of the availability of soil nitrogen to combinable crops and identify management practices that will help to optimise its efficiency of use.

RD-2007-3425 Establishing Best Practice for Predicting Soil Nitrogen Supply (SNS) To achieve consensus across the industry on best practice for estimation of soil N supply.

RD2008-3189 Cost-effective sampling strategies for soil management
The overall aim of this project is to develop a rational strategy for practical field sampling for nutrient content of soils, to ensure that inputs meet crop requirements and that significant areas of excess or inadequate nutrients do not emerge.

Please click here to see publications that have arisen out of finished projects.

More information can be found on the Soil Information Gateway on the Agriculture and Horticulture Research Forum website which was developed by the combined agricultural Levy Boards.