Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 14, 2023

But will the current trend away from ploughing towards direct drilling and the accompanying use of glyphosate bring the benefits advocates claim, or could this make matters even worse? Richard Young follows on from his article, Speed the plough or the direct drill and sprayer?

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Modern Farmer

AUGUST 24, 2023

But she maintains that “organic is still really important,” and that’s why USDA organic standards, food grown without most pesticides and synthetic fertilizers, is the minimum baseline for the ROC certification.

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Sustainable Food Trust

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Arable soils are losing 40-60% of their organic carbon, whilst 300,000 hectares of UK soil is contaminated by heavy metals, plastics, sewage sludge and manure; further, microplastics, which have “ unknown consequences ”, are pervasive in UK soil and can carry harmful chemicals. Most cropland globally has lost 30-40% of its organic matter.

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RR2CS

MARCH 8, 2022

Often, in conventional agriculture, muskeg areas and sloughs are drained and ploughed. Then, we planted green manures and cover crops to help build up the topsoil again, which had been pretty depleted over the years. Even more so, we’re focusing on green manures and cover crops to keep the soil safe. It was literally cooking.

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