In this episode, we hear from Regen Ben, our host for recording day, at his farm near Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire. With some powerful messages, Ben is a passionate advocate for regenerative farming, and you can listen to his thoughts on soil improvers and how he uses Sea2Soil and other practices on his farm across his cropping in a profitable way, which has significantly improved soil health and biodiversity. Ben explains how SeaSoil is being successfully utilised right across the farm rotation in multiple crops, including cereals, potatoes and in agroforestry, and how it complements all the...

Following a long, hot, dry summer, soils will be suffering in many areas and will need a boost in terms of soil biological activity ahead of next season. With rain and showers forecast much more widely across the UK for the coming days (late-August), it’s an ideal time to apply Sea2Soil and kick-start the microbial activity in your soils. Whether drilling new winter crops, covers ahead of spring drilling next year, or leaving a fallow green stubble, applying a soil improver will provide vital nutrients to boost soil microbial activity and soil health, in turn improving early establishment o...

In this episode of the Sea2Soil Podcast, Business Development Manager Grant James sits down with regenerative farmer Ben Taylor-Davies (Regen Ben) in Ross-on-Wye to discuss the realities of soil improvement, the role of biology in farming systems, and how Sea2Soil is helping kickstart natural processes across his diverse enterprise. Beyond the promises of soil improvers When asked about his past experience with soil improvers, Ben didn’t hold back: “Many soil improvers I’ve tried don’t improve soil. You spend an awful lot of money on promises, and often the results just aren’t there...

Healthy soil equals healthy crops. That’s the core message of The Sea2Soil Podcast – and it’s never more relevant than when we talk about soil cultivation. In Episode 1, host Grant James speaks with Steve Townsend of Soil First Farming about why excessive soil movement is one of the most damaging – and costly – practices in modern agriculture. In this companion blog, we dig deeper into the points Steve raised and explore why reducing cultivation could be the most profitable decision a farmer makes. What do we mean by “Cultivation”? Cultivation, or soil movement, has long been a...

In this first episode, Grant James talks with soil consultant and tillage expert and Director of Soil First Farming, Steve Townsend, about how building carbon and soil biology is the key for good conservation agriculture. Steve also gives a useful insight into some of the main issues with soils in the UK at this time in terms of their overall health for supporting crops, and discusses some of the tests and assessments farmers should be looking to do more routinely with their soils. Steve also talks briefly about his involvement with BASE-UK, a farmer-led knowledge exchange organisation for gr...