Mind the gap … missing nutrients

Mind the gap … missing nutrients

UK farmers and growers spend around £500m a year on nitrogen-based fertilisers to boost crop production – nothing wrong in trying to boost production, it’s what has been happening since man stopped being hunter gatherers and moved to farming settlements. We keep...
Should we be banking in our soils?

Should we be banking in our soils?

The banking metaphor of using your soil as a long-term nutrient bank, allowing you to store crop nutrients away for future use, should be resigned to the annals of history. In our view, and especially with phosphate, it is only a bank in the respect of locking up...