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Commenced:	01/11/2011
Submitted:	14/10/2015
Last updated:	14/10/2015
Location:	Hudford Farm, WIVELISCOMBE, Select a state, GB
Phone:	07866 674 205
Website:	www.regenag.co.uk
Climate zone:	Cool Temperate

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Soil Health; A Living Perspective - one-day workshop with Joel Williams 21st November and 7th December 2015

Project: RegenAg UK

Posted by Natasha Giddings over 8 years ago

One-day workshop on Optimising Soil Management for Agricultural Productivity - either 21st November 2015, Roehampton University or 7th December 2015, Wardington Manor, Nr Banbury

Proposed Timetable

Introduction: The Living Soil
- Introduction of the main microbe groups.
- Understanding the role of soil life for soil nutrient supply and crop production.
- Functions, roles and interactions of microbes in agro-ecosystems.
- Nutrient cycling, availability and extraction by plants.
- Influences of plant morphology.

Soil Carbon: The centrepiece of soil health
- Plants, photosynthesis, root exudates and microbes.
- Carbon sequestration, nutrient access, disease suppression, soil structure, glomalin
- How to build AMF via management of environment, agronomics, rotations, inoculations, green manures, how to avoid practices that suppress them.
- Fungi:Bacteria Balance.
- Soil disturbance/no-till farming – discusses soil carbon sequestration, soil structure, how to offset negative effects of tillage to support soil life.

Organic manures and Composts: stabilising nutrients in the landscape while optimising crop supply
- Manures vs composts.
- Quality vs Quantity.
- Manure applications, nutrient content and supplementing soils with additional nutrients.
- Composting summary – general introduction (temp, O2 etc).
- Practical account of ‘how to’ to make compost for soil application.
- Practical manure management and compost making on a time budget.
- Manure and compost amendments – building carbon and addressing soil deficiencies.

Making the most of soil: Understanding soil nutrients and amendments
- Leveraging existing soil fertility and optimising any purchased inputs.
- Nutrient behaviour in soils, nutrient synergies/antagonisms.
- Understanding total, exchangeable, soluble nutrient pools.
- Slow release, fast release.
- Biostimulants, biofertilisers, chemical inputs – how these inputs influence soil biology and crop quality.
- The role of carbon and carbon-input complexes.

Where to next?
- Rethinking minerals and microbes – balancing nutrient supply and soil agro-ecological health in order to optimise photosynthesis, crop quality, pest and disease pressure.
- Integrated disease management and novel approaches to managing plant immune responses – biostimulants, bioinoculants, compost extracts.

Video of Joel presenting a few years ago

More information at www.regenag.co.uk

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