Resource: Applied research

Technical information to help you manage the clover content of your swards in ways that will benefit your sheep stocking rates.

An article outlining properties of three species that could be considered for fertility-building mixes, trialed in the Legume LINK project.

The Legume LINK final report, with pointers to help you improve the efficiency of your leys, benefiting crop production and pollinators.

A factsheet with useful tips to help you assess and plan grass and legume ley rotations; includes rules, examples and management guidance.

Practical information to help you grow, harvest and manage grain legumes for livestock.

An identification guide to eight of the UK’s most common bumblebees, vital pollinators for our food crops and wild flowers.

A Bees for Development factsheet providing useful information to help you integrate insect beneficial plants on your farm.

Video footage of a member of the TILMAN-ORG project outlining some of the problems and potential solutions associated with reduced tillage.

The impacts of reduced tillage methods on crop yield, fertility building and weeds; some key messages from the TILMAN-ORG project.

A pack introducing some essential basics for growers, helping promote understanding and improve the management of soil

Improve your farm productivity and environment with field drainage; principles, methods, assessment, maintenance, renewal and installation.

This AHDB manual provides information to help you manage your soil for the good of the environment, your animals, and your pocket.

The National Soil Resources Institute’s practical guide to understanding, assessing, maintaining and improving soil structure.

Biodynamic Association guidelines that describe the use of compost and spray preparations that help form the basis of biodynamic practice. 

A SWARM Hub webpage to help you maximise on available nutrients in organic manures, make savings and reduce environmental losses.

Earthworms; their biology, ecology, and multiple services they provide, and what we can do to ensure they thrive and benefit soil fertility.

A practical guide giving pictorial advice on assessing, maintaining and improving grassland soil structure and soil biology levels.

Duchy College and Rothamsted Research’s mobile manure management app; find out how you can use it and access the app from this webpage.

Simple steps that farmers can take to halt the decline of bees and other insect pollinators in Wales, relevant to the British Isles.

Practical steps you can take to ensure hedges on your farm support pollinator populations and improve the pollination of your crops.

Simple measures you can take to encourage the more common, widespread species of butterflies and moths on your farm.

Land management practice and policy tips to help implement the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in ways that will benefit pollinators.

A short video of why we need pollinators and they need us. What simple actions can we take to help reduce the many threats pollinators face?

Practical advice on how we as farmers and growers, can manage pollinators and achieve optimum returns, and pointers for policymakers.