Whether it’s for your own farm management and profit margin or to help with a grant, soil testing is important and our team at Bateman Hosegood can help.
Why is it important to soil test?
Gain knowledge about your soil condition
Fertile soils are necessary to grow healthy crops. Identifying nutrient deficiencies within the soil will help determine the crop requirements and maximise growth.
Minimise expenditures
Knowing the quantities of nutrients in your soil can avoid over-fertilisation.
Environmental Factor
Unbalanced soil nutrition can increase leaching and soil erosion, resulting in pollution. Moreover, it is your valuable nutrients that you can be losing!
Stewardship/ SFI
Land that falls within a Nitrate Vulnerable Zone (NVZ) requires soils to be tested every 4 years.
Government Schemes
Soil testing is required for scheme options such as CSAM1/SAM1 for SFI and low input options such as GS2 for Countryside Stewardship.
Carbon
Carbon auditing is becoming a more regular part of supply contracts, and it is expected to form a major part of future agriculture policy, possibly becoming mandatory for farm businesses.
Our specialist team can offer the following:
For more information on soil testing and how we can help you, contact the team today.
