Early Indicators of Soil Health Project Workshop 10th February 2026

Описание: Overview
A workshop discussion on soil health indicators. Farmers and Advisors were invited to share their views on how understandable, useful and relevant they are.
How do we decide which indicators best reflect soil health?

This workshop led by Dr. Julia Cooper and Dr. Catriona Willoughby at The Organic Research Centre (ORC) shared the progress of the Early Indicators of Soil Health Project which aims to improve land manager confidence in the measuring and monitoring of soil health by improving our understanding of which soil metrics are most suitable as early indicators of soil health changes.

We invited farmers and farm advisors with a UK perspective to participate and engage with the shortlisted indicators from the project, offering feedback on their usefulness, clarity and relevance.

The session combined short presentations with facilitated discussion and feedback activities which will help the project submit a final report to AHDB which summarises our selection process, the creation of the interpretation framework and any avenues for future research.

Participant Information – Industry Workshop

Project title: Early indicators to monitor changes in soil health: evidence to update guidance for UK farmers

Research Organisation: Organic Research Centre (ORC), Scottish Rural University College (SRUC)

1. Purpose of the workshop

The workshop forms part of the Soil Health Indicators Project, which seeks to evaluate and communicate practical soil health indicators for use by industry, advisors, and farmers. The event will present emerging results from expert consultations and invite participant discussion and feedback.

This event was hosted by ORC.