Soil Carbon Webinar: How Rothamsted Research can support your soil carbon and soil health needs and questions

Changing farming practices can change the structure and health of soils, and the amount of carbon held within it. How do regenerative practices, such as reduced tillage, cover crops, compost management, or different fertiliser types change your soil? How can you manage it? Can these practices revitalise your soil from decades or centuries of compaction and synthetic fertiliser use? How long will recovery take?

Researchers at Rothamsted have been finding answers to these questions through long-term experiments. Jonathan Storkey, Ian Shield, Jonah Prout, David Powlson, Stephan Haefele, and Andy Neal will share evidence with the farming community – focussing on the measurement and impact of managing soil carbon with regenerative farming practices. We will cover:

•    the importance of soil carbon for resilient crops
•    alternative ways to measure and benchmark soil carbon
•    the potential of different management options to build soil carbon

These events will provide space to ask questions and have discussions directly with our panel of experts and special guests from the farming community. It is a great opportunity to engage with the research being carried out at Rothamsted, to hear about our scientific work and to provide your voice and that of the farming community to scientific agricultural research.

There will be two versions of this event – one online (13th November 2024) and one in-person at Harpenden, Hertfordshire (12th February 2025; see here for more details and to sign up). Both events will cover the same content, so you can pick whichever is most convenient for you. Please only book on to one of the events.

For further information about this workshop or future events in this series on regenerative agriculture practices please contact Dr Oliver Pritchard Moore: oli.moore@rothamsted.ac.uk