With the return of LAMMA, the UK’s leading agricultural machinery, equipment and technology show, on the 4th and 5th May, we thought we would focus this month’s episode of the Agronomy Matters podcast on cultivations.

Net zero is a current hot topic and there is no doubt that reducing cultivations can be a factor in cutting carbon dioxide emissions and increasing sequestration in the soil but what are the benefits of cultivations, and when and why should cultivations be used. Well on this episode of agronomy matters we have three experts to shed some more light on the importance of cultivations.

- David Purdy, a territory business manager for John Deere. David has over 35 years’ experience in the agricultural machinery industry and tells us about the role cultivations still have in agriculture.

- Philip Wright, an independent soil consultant with a wealth of experience in soil structure and the impact of cultivation methods.

- Glenn Bootman, joins us from HE-VA where he is both Territory Manager for South Central England and Product Manager. Having been involved with the farm machinery sector for almost 30 years Glenn focusses on how we can choose and optimise machinery use.

Make sure you listen to the end of the episode to find out how to claim one BASIS CPD point via the members area on the BASIS website.