Valuing Your Soils: Grassland and Forage
Valuing Your Soils: Grassland and Forage
Want to know how to increase yields through good soil management? At this grassland and forage workshop you will receive a copy of the recently released ‘Valuing Your Soils’ brochure and get practical advice for:
•
Improving soil structure and maintaining healthy soils
Come along to this free soils awareness raising event at
• Growing maize as additional forage
SRUC Crichton Royal Farm Dumfries, DG1 4AS
• Managing soil-based constraints to production
World Soils Day Monday 5 December 2016 11.00 am – 3.00 pm with lunch provided To book a place please email [email protected] or telephone 0131 535 4155
• Identifying and alleviating soil compaction problems
• Reducing risks to soils and business associated with erratic weather Programme • Hugh McClymont and experts from SRUC and SEPA will speak about good dairy farm soil management, benefits and challenges of growing maize, Crichton soils research and protecting soils and the environment • Machinery demonstrations • Farm tour with open soil pits • Practical demonstrations of soil visual evaluation
This workshop is supported by CREW at the request of SEPA
• Open discussions between farmers, advisors and researchers
Scotland’s Rural College Leading the way in Agriculture and Rural Research, Education and Consulting SRUC is a charity registered in Scotland , No. SC003712
310776DMN11.11.16
Want to know how to increase yields through good soil management? At this grassland and forage workshop you will receive a copy of the recently released ‘Valuing Your Soils’ brochure and get practical advice for:
•
Improving soil structure and maintaining healthy soils
Come along to this free soils awareness raising event at
• Growing maize as additional forage
SRUC Crichton Royal Farm Dumfries, DG1 4AS
• Managing soil-based constraints to production
World Soils Day Monday 5 December 2016 11.00 am – 3.00 pm with lunch provided To book a place please email [email protected] or telephone 0131 535 4155
• Identifying and alleviating soil compaction problems
• Reducing risks to soils and business associated with erratic weather Programme • Hugh McClymont and experts from SRUC and SEPA will speak about good dairy farm soil management, benefits and challenges of growing maize, Crichton soils research and protecting soils and the environment • Machinery demonstrations • Farm tour with open soil pits • Practical demonstrations of soil visual evaluation
This workshop is supported by CREW at the request of SEPA
• Open discussions between farmers, advisors and researchers
Scotland’s Rural College Leading the way in Agriculture and Rural Research, Education and Consulting SRUC is a charity registered in Scotland , No. SC003712
310776DMN11.11.16
