Measuring outcomes from following soil health principles for a few years is great but can take time, however visually this is perhaps all I need to see (+ some some soil nutrient tests sent to a lab)

To celebrate Burns Day here's a haiku from Bruce Ball 's Healing Soil book ⬇️🪱🌍

Thought provoking ideas on the future importance of Small Farms have recently been added to Colin Tudge’ blog colintudge.com/videos/a-small… ORFC SRUC

☝🏼More technology won’t necessarily prevent soil erosion. Instead, we need to understand the farmers! How on earth we can do that? Since everyone is rushing to give advice instead of listening to the farmer. Excerpt from the Managing soil quality book by P. Schjonning et al.

A great resource for farmers and sustainable land use is the Living Field: sustainable croplands livingfield.co.uk LivingField2020 Hosted by James Hutton Institute and Geoffrey Squire (Dr Geoff Squire), it includes resources on climate change, local food and nice artwork

Many thanks to Geoffrey Squire for putting material on Visual Evaluation of Soil Structure #vess and artwork from amazon.co.uk/Healing-soil-h… on the LivingField site livingfield.co.uk/soil/vess-visu… James Hutton Institute ORFC SRUC

Good to see what looked like a #VESS chart sruc.ac.uk/media/xbrfn4x3… in a consultant’s hand on tonight’s @BBCCountryfile program. After this winter assessing soil structure visually and acting on what is seen is more vital than ever British Society of Soil Science SRUC ORFC

Many thanks to Lance, driver of service 140 from Musselburgh to Roslin for keeping my wedding ring after I lost it on the bus today and to the lady who picked it up East Coast Buses

Bruce Ball We're really pleased to hear our colleagues were able to assist in reuniting you with your wedding ring, Bruce!

My pleasure to co-facilitate a panel on #SoilHealth with the World Food Prize Foundation Laureate Dr. Rattan Lal who opened by saying "Africa is fully capable of feeding itself". @ca4sh_global will help make a bread basket with good soil health. #AFSH24

My phone decided to create this video clip with music. It has worked out visual soil assessment methodology …😏

Co-designed by UK industry, the Soil Scientist Apprenticeship will equip and upskill organisations with the knowledge, understanding, tools, practices, and resources to achieve optimal soil management. Find out more: cranfield.ac.uk/courses/taught… #SoilScience #Apprenticeship

Less Chemical Nitrogen, less Chemical weed control, less Diesel usage, 60% more organic matter/manure can be incorporated for soil health, soil aeration for root growth, greater roots can deposit carbon sequestration at deeper layers. So why is ploughing frowned upon again?!! 🤔

Ecomat on demo from Thurlow Nunn Standen today- burying trash pretty well at 5”. Looks good and could help us move less soil in our #organicfarming system. Kverneland Group

SSSAJ featured article📢 Visual evaluation of soil structure is a reliable method to detect changes in the soil quality of Colombian Amazon pasturelands doi.org/10.1002/saj2.2… Study by Mora-Motta & colleagues Uniamazonia Duber Alejandro Mora Motta Maria Paula Llanos

Use of #AI in #soilhealth #governance & #management is rising. This will de-value farmers' and other land workers' bottom-up/practical knowledge: the real basis of #sustainability. Technology must serve places and their people! Interview by AI 4 Soil Health Biodiverse Anthropocenes #missionsoil

“Green revolution bypassed Africa on matters soil health. The answer now is not going back to green revolution thinking, it lies in one health approach to health of soils, plants, animals, people & the planet” Dr Lal. Soil scientist and winner of world food prize! #COP29Baku

Listened to some amazing scientists yesterday explaining the growing evidence that how we farm, and our soil biome health, is passing through food to make us sick and also the reverse, how good food from good soil can make us well again, including mental health

Visual Evaluation of Soil Structure: - gently tease apart along lines of natural weakness to look for soil aggregate shape and size at different depths - gently crush aggregates between finger and thumb to assess friability and density #WorldSoilDay2024 #interpretsoil #vess

Nature-based solutions…… a relevant paper to guide your research sciencedirect.com/science/articl…