Getting the dirt: Improving agriculture through plant-soil interaction insights

This presentation is a review of current short and long-term field trials at SRUC that target Scottish Government climate change and agricultural policy. Experiments aim to measure greenhouse gas emissions, increase soil carbon and increase efficiency of valuable fertiliser use.

Scottish Government: Securing a green recovery on a path to net zero: climate change plan 2018–2032: “We must continue to produce high quality food, but also deliver high environmental standards and emissions reductions; we will ensure that rural support enables, encourages and where appropriate requires the shift to low carbon sustainable farming.”