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Why Should I Test?
The importance of soil health is well reported, warnings that our soils are severely depleted are common place and calls for farmers to restore and improve soils have now reached policy level. Measuring soil health offers a number of crucial benefits to farmers, these include:
Better understanding of yield constraints
Less reliance on external inputs
Improved resilience
Cost saving
However there is still uncertainty as to how we should monitor and measure soil health and how to apply soil testing to aid management decisions
Extended Reading: AAB Paper
Helping farmers to choose, use and interpret test results to inform soil management decisions for soil health By S Briggs and G E Éclair-Heath
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