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.
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
17 February 2023
- Soil emissions in Northern Ireland
- EU soil BENCHMARKS project
- Nextdoor Nature programme
- Global grassland Soil Organic Carbon
- EU pesticide reduction targets
10 February 2023
- Farmers' opinion
- Sustainable Management
- EU Farm to Fork division
- EU organic farming
- Car pollutions reduces soil carbon
03 February 2023
- Defra reduce soil target
- Royal Society on land-use
- New soil amendments
- Heritage cereals research
- Soil board game
27 January 2023
- Clarity on Defra farm subsidies
- Food, farming and nature consensus
- Fungi biotechnology
- Raise the pulse
- Soil organisms in parks
20 January 2023
- England Envt Targets
- EU soil indicator
- Soil and gut health
- Soil carbon calculations
- Soil microbes and climate change
13 January 2023
- Global Farm Metric framework
- Soil biodiversity policies
- London rewilding with horses
- Crop mixtures help soils
- First Food Diversity Day
06 January 2023
- New SFI payment
- Low SFI uptake
- Soil Health Action Plan
- Dead bodies used in compost
- Organic matter helps soils hold nitrogen