The Week in Soil
Our weekly blog features the main scientific, political and cultural soil-related stories of interest from across the web over the previous seven days, available on our website and through our Twitter account every Friday morning.
22 December 2023
- Scotland’s rural budget cuts
- Extra £4 billion required for agricultural budget
- Soil missing from COP28 declaration
- Welsh government's objection to energy park
- Bristol contaminated soil
15 December 2023
- Private investment in nature scheme
- Soil Nutrient Health Scheme
- Reaction to EFRA report
- Regenerative funding framework
- Champion soil farmer
08 December 2023
- EFRA committee soil health report
- World Soil Day
- COP28
- Agricarbon investment
- Bristol Living Soil
01 December 2023
- COP28
- Government support for nature
- WWF report
- Soils’ role in natural flood management
- Ecosystem Marketplace report
24 November 2023
- UK Chancellor’s Autumn statement
- Greener Farms Commitment
- New woodlands and soils
- European Mission Soil Week
- Soil relocation
17 November 2023
- New UK Environment Secretary
- False soil samples
- Soil monitoring market
- Regenerative flour
- Lunar soils
10 November 2023
- Sustainable horticulture
- King’s speech
- FAO report
- ‘Big Soils Stocktake’
- Wildfires and soils
03 November 2023
- Government nature commitment
- Red Tractor update
- #COPsoil
- Impact of flooding
- Soil organic carbon
27 October 2023
- SFI payments
- Storm Babel
- World Food Forum
- Future crops
- Soil microbes and diamonds
20 October 2023
- Red tractor criticism
- Nature credit markets
- New regenerative programmes
- Peat-free soil blocks
- #WorldWormDay
13 October 2023
- Labour’s green agenda
- UK Soils Awareness Week
- Soil monitoring technology
- Ancient genetic pathways
- Carbon credit markets
06 October 2023
- Scotland’s Agriculture bill
- Value of earthworms
- Soil monitoring technology
- Monoculture tree planting
- Human connections to soil
22 September 2023
- SFI applications open
- Unsubstantiated regenerative claims
- Maize harvest
- Nitrogen use efficiency
15 September 2023
- Support for buying British produce
- Multinationals trialling regenerative agriculture
- Benefits of cover cropping
- Lady Eve Balfour
- #IGrowYourFood day
08 September 2023
- ‘Urgent action’ needed on soil health policy
- Soil health’s relation to human health
- Agroforestry show
- Survey reveals farmers’ concerns
- Circular dining
01 September 2023
- SFI applications
- Peatland projects
- Resilient blackcurrants
- Agroecology for Africa
- Soil microbes affected by heat
25 August 2023
- SFI applications
- Peatland projects
- Resilient blackcurrants
- Agroecology for Africa
- Soil microbes affected by heat
14 August 2023
- Wet weather impacts
- England Ecosystem Project
- Soil species-rich habitat
- Soil in climate strategies
- Managing an allotment
04 August 2023
- House of Lords protecting land
- Climate adaptation plan
- Reduced fertiliser increasing crops
- Supermarket environmental pricing
- Organic farming
28 July 2023
- NFU on Wales farm scheme
- COP28 on land-use
- Quarry and ancient soils
- Pesticides and soil biodiversity
- Livestock emissions and net zero
21 July 2023
- Defra report on UK agriculture
- Farming industrial strategy
- Welsh views on new farming scheme
- US invests in global soil scheme
- EU drought
14 July 2023
- Polluter pays fines
- Farming Rules for Water
- SFI economic benefits
- EU audit of soil policies
- Declining insect populations
07 July 2023
- Local Nature Recovery Strategies
- Farming Innovation Competition
- River campaign
- EU Soil Law
- EU Sustainable Food Law
30 June 2023
- Defra measures for peat
- £4.4bn for nature-friendly farming
- Slow decarbonising farming
- Scottish farm subsidies to include soil testing
- Groundswell 2023
23 June 2023
- Defra’s updated SFI
- Court review of food strategy
- EU Nature Law progress
- Food systems and climate
- Warming soils store less carbon
16 June 2023
- Defra new SFI standards
- England’s biodiversity targets
- Drought, the next pandemic
- Businesses want EU nature law
- Framework for England’s soil health
09 June 2023
- Global Farm Metric
- NFU backs new global warming measure
- EU concern over pesticides
- Regenerative agriculture measure
- Less insects on farm soils
02 June 2023
- Decline in farm incomes
- Defra funds farm resilience
- Job losses for livestock farms
- EU votes down nature law
- Conservation Basic Income
26 May 2023
- Defra support tenant farms
- Scottish govt food security
- Daera ammonia emissions
- Bioenergy research
- Accessible soil data
19 May 2023
- Farm to Fork Summit
- Farmer confidence
- Potential soil import ban
- Soil health app
- Pesticides and bird decline
12 May 2023
- Govt invests in fertiliser
- Unfair funding for Scottish farms
- Soil Health Inquiry
- Spanish drought
- Soil health benchmarks
05 May 2023
- WWF agriculture emissions plan
- River pollution election issue
- Horticulture strategy scrapped
- Livestock profits
- Biden backs climate-smart agriculture
28 April 2023
- Climate activists protest
- Calls for Natural England overhaul
- Govt supporting biochar
- Banned pesticides sold to Brazil
- Regulating natural capital markets
21 April 2023
- Systemic problems with ELMS
- Fenland soils
- Low soil moisture in Spain
- Critical minerals in UK soil
- Sustainable fashion
14 April 2023
- Microplastics in UK soils
- Environment Agency strike
- UK soils nutrient deficiencies
- Potato innovation programme
- Sounds of soil research
07 April 2023
- Green Finance Strategy
- LEAF certification for Aldi UK
- Soil Health Industry Platform
- Compost benefits
- Acidic UK soils
31 March 2023
- Peat-ban delay
- Green Finance for farming
- Funds for farming tech
- Farming impact on air pollution
- Moon soil
24 March 2023
- UN IPCC climate report
- Nature charities call for action
- Ukraine war impacting soils
- Drought in France affecting farms
- Soil health computer game
17 March 2023
- Phosphorus shortages
- Contaminated soil fine
- Dutch farmers protest
- Wildfarmed regenerative tour
- Pavements for soil
10 March 2023
- Businesses support environmental protections
- Europe winter drought
- EU pesticide reductions stalled
- Farm environmental data
- Small-holdings and post-Brexit farm
03 March 2023
- Businesses support environmental protections
- Europe winter drought
- EU pesticide reductions stalled
- Farm environmental data
- Small-holdings and post-Brexit farm
24 February 2023
- NFU Conference
- Greenwashing business claims
- Coffee and climate change
- Biochar supports soil carbon
- Soil carbon sequestration