In this month’s episode of the BASIS Agronomy Matters Podcast we are talking all things soil following an update to one of our most popular BASIS courses, the Soil & Water Management Certificate. Our first guest on this episode is David Felce, Regional Technical Adviser at Agrii, who spoke about the challenges of managing the physical properties of our soil, for example through cultivations and cover crops. We were then joined by Anne Bhogal, Principal Soil Scientist at ADAS, who is an expert in the chemical make up of our soils and the biology which lives within it. With Anne we spoke about why soil biology is so important, how we can promote it through changing our soil management practices and what key chemical properties farmers should be focussing on. Our final guest was Charlotte Cook, an independent agronomist working for Indigro. Before starting her role as an agronomist Charlotte carried out a research project as part of her Masters looking into carbon footprinting in arable farming systems. Charlotte explains a bit more about this project and what role soil carbon can play as we move towards agriculture being a net-zero industry by 2040. Charlotte was also a speaker on one of our webinars as part of the Sustainability Series and recordings of these webinars can be found on the BASIS YouTube channel.

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