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🤝 Grower groups — when well run — can transform soil management on large numbers of farms, fast.

This Thursday at Groundswell Agriculture, Tom will be joined by three brilliant grower group facilitators I met along the way to unpack how we can change this: 🌿 Tim Field 🌳 Nick Marriner 🌱 Andrea McKenna

Interesting piece from George Eustice on the future of SFI

Tom's take on George Eustice's reflections on the future of the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI). For those not following the twists and turns of farming policy as nerdily as me 😂 here’s a quick explainer:

👋 Come find us at Cereals Event today or tomorrow!

We’re at Stand 106 – just on the left as you come in - come and claim your free cap if you've upgraded more than 5 farms

🌱 Soil Benchmark is now used on over 10% of English farmland!

We’re celebrating with 10% off all week! From a scrappy idea to a trusted tool for 3,755 farms (and counting) — thank you.

🌾💥 SFI: Paused, Reopened, Capped – What's Next? 👇

DEFRA says ~3,000 paused SFI applications can now go ahead — but only up to £9.3k/year. New data shows SAM3 leads by value, while SAM1 covers the most land.

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Reflections from 🇦🇺 Australia (What happens when soil health becomes a survival strategy...)

Tom's just back from 5 weeks across Aus for his Nuffield Farming Scholarships Trust study (funded by Yorkshire Agricultural Society 🙏). A few highlights 👇

💩🚰 Another post on muck and rivers - buckle up! Important changes for farmers and advisors across 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 & 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Following Tom's last update (https://t.ly/tVJwY) on the Corry Review, here's a look at two big recent updates for Wales:

🚨 One to flag for farmers & agronomists in England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿: it looks like changes are coming to the slurry & manure management rules...

The DEFRA-commissioned Corry Review landed earlier this week, and Environment Secretary Steve Reed has indicated DEFRA

🌟🌱 SFI Take-up: Latest Figures – Does DEFRA Need to Change Course? 👇

Insights and analysis on the SFI progress update from DEFRA for the final months of 2024 and looking forward into 2025

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🇦🇺🦘First few days in Australia for AgriFutures evokeAG and already plenty to take in.

A few key themes coming through in conversations so far, some of which which will sound pretty familiar:

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🤔 🇦🇺 🪱 Why do Aussie farmers share soil-y ideas BETTER and FASTER than anyone else?

Tom reflects on the importance of grower groups in Australian agriculture and announces his upcoming antipodean trip

Farmer protests

🧑‍🌾 How can we stop inheritance tax (IHT) avoidance without punishing real farmers? 🌱

Tom reflects on Dan Neidle's excellent article discussing changes to farm IHT.

📊🚜 SFI Update: Progress or Paralysis? 🤔

Tom dives into the latest stats for the Sustainable Farming Incentive

Farmer protests

Some manure guidance before tomorrow’s rally (kind of)

🚨 📢 PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT - re the Farmer Rally in London tomorrow from Soil Benchmark Ahead of the farmer #rally in London

We won the Santander X Award!

🤯🏆Eeeek… we only went and won the Santander X Award!!!There were some brilliant pitches from really fantastic startups yesterday

Farmer protests

Budget 2024: what it means for UK agriculture and land use

For those of you in a rush who - like me - didn't have a chance to watch the budget or read through the accompanying documents, don't worry!

We’re hiring a full-stack developer to help improve soil health at scale

🚀 We’re Hiring! Come join a soil health software startup that in under a year has signed up over 5% of England’s farmland

History repeats: how land use is being reshaped again

🤓 DEEP-DIVE ALERT 🤓: The way we use land is changing rapidly - just like it did in the 16th Century.

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