Is your soil as healthy as it could be? These NIAB courses delivered by ARTIS Training this winter in Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Buckinghamshire and Essex focus on soil management techniques for higher yielding crops.
Strategies for sustainable soil management
8 February 2018, Cambridgeshire
Trainer: Mel Holloway, ADAS
Learn how to manage soil quality, cultivations, land drainage and field margins to achieve optimum and sustainable crop yields and quality in non-irrigated arable crops and break crops.
Course fee: £225 + VAT
Improving soil biology for better yields
15 January 2018, Lincolnshire
14 February 2018, Essex
Trainer: Elizabeth Stockdale, NIAB TAG
Get a better understanding of soil biology, its importance in agriculture for maintaining healthy and sustainable soils and the effects of current farming practices on the diversity of organisms and population sizes in the soil.
Course fee: £225 + VAT
The 14 February 2018 course is run in partnership with LEAF, entitling LEAF members to 15% off .
Essentials of good soil management
30 January 2018, Cambridgeshire
Trainer: Mel Holloway, ADAS
Understand the essentials of good soil management and improve your on-farm cultivation decisions.
Course fee: £225 + VAT
Building soil fertility through better rotations in combinable crops
1 February 2018, Cambridgeshire
Trainer: Nathan Morris, NIAB
Understand how to manage rotations and build soil fertility to optimise crop yield, cost and margin.
Course fee: £225 + VAT
This course is run in partnership with LEAF, entitling LEAF members to 15% off.
Best practice in water management and irrigation
20 February 2018, Lincolnshire
Trainer: Dr Mark Stalham, NIAB CUF
Understand how best to manage the irrigation of potato, field vegetable and salad crops to improve crop yields and quality.
Course fee: £225 + VAT
This course is run in partnership with LEAF, entitling LEAF members to 15% off.