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Sea2Soil invests in next-phase trials in partnership with Nottingham University to research how the soil improver encourages essential microbial activity  As we move into the third year since our first farmer-led trials, the Sea2Soil team is excited to announce that next-phase research and development is currently underway.  In partnership with the Nottingham University Soil Department, we are investing time and money into how Sea2Soils’ performance stacks up against traditional farming methods. By comparing regeneration agriculture with conventional agriculture practices we’re working...

Signs of Spring are everywhere, and while work in the world of agriculture never stops, this month we will see efforts ramp up - from the drilling, or sowing, of the sugar beet to fertilising and crop spraying. At a local level, we may still only be seeing the seeds of regenerative agriculture taking hold, but as reported in the Financial Times recently, at a global level, the well-coined phrase is now ‘firmly cemented in corporate parlance’ as well as across some of ‘the sustainability plans of big food companies such as Nestlé, Unilever and Danone’. With leaps being made ‘up ther...

There’s no denying that agriculture and all of us working within it, have landed at a very interesting turning point.  The times ahead are undoubtedly exciting, they hold incomparable potential and opportunity in fact. As we begin to navigate through a massive transformation, following the last 50 years of reliance on NPK, industry evolution has been steady, and change has been minimal.   It’s hard to predict the future, otherwise, we’d all be millionaires, but that element of the unknown is where I believe we can tap into a whole new approach; led by creative thinking an...

With the next generation of farmers starting to manage their family farms, the challenges of climate change and the cost of fertilisers rapidly increasing, regenerative farming practices are becoming a key focus within the industry.  British farmers now want to find out more about using natural products to support their growth, the quality of their produce and the future of the UK farming industry in a sustainable and cost-effective way.  For that reason, we hosted an exciting event featuring expert independent plant and soil health educator Joel Williams on 10th November 2023 to provid...

As margins are ever more squeezed on farm, over the last twelve months we have seen a significant increase in farmers looking for a more sustainable and cost-effective way of applying nitrogen to their land while reducing farm inputs. Fish hydrolysates are now playing a key role in that search for solutions and are proven to stimulate soil life and supply nitrogen without the negative impacts attributed to synthetic nitrogen fertilisers. What is a fish hydrolysate? Hydrolysation is the process of breaking complex proteins into their component amino acids. These can then be utilised by both th...