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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-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.

RD-2008-3189 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.

RD-2008-3555 Identification of specific P compound groups using NMR 
The aim of this study is to investigate the use of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to identify specific P compounds in different soil types to improve our understanding of P dynamics.

RD-2008-3508 Current status of soils and responsiveness of wheat to 
This project seeks to provide information to begin to fill this knowledge gap. The programme includes new field experiments, specifically developed for the key micronutrients, to gain information on yield responsiveness in an efficient manner in order to provide guidelines for farmers.

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.