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Growing cover crops to prevent bare fields helps soil and wildlife – study (www.standard.co.uk)

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A shift away from the familiar sight of bare winter fields can help improve soils and boost wildlife, a study suggests.

An assessment of “regenerative agriculture” – which focuses on improving soils, producing food and increasing farmland wildlife – found good evidence that minimising bare soils, for example by growing cover crops on land over winter, had benefits for soil health and nature.

But there was less evidence from the UK-focused study around benefits from “no-till” or “minimum-till” practices which limit the disturbance of the soil from ploughing, despite their prominence in regenerative agriculture.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I regularly see this on a road near me. After heavy rain, water drains down into it from the fields on either side - the side that has the bare field on it is always brown with eroded soil and the side with permanent pasture on it is always clear.