'Tile drainage, especially where wet soil conditions are prevalent, is a viable option to mitigate agricultural N2O emissions.' Gonna read this one! Nice work from Soil, Water, & Climate CFANS

What is the importance of Agricultural Drainage?

Proper drainage is critical for productive, resilient, and sustainable crop production. However, many agricultural soils have poor natural drainage, leading to problems like:

💧 Waterlogging and ponding
🌱 Lack of oxygen for

Nuffield Farm Walk on thursday, all welcome. Nuffield Farming

NAAC Land Drainage Section Chairman, Rob Burtonshaw of Rob Burtonshaw will be on hand to answer your #LandDrainage questions at Cereals Event. Find us in the NAAC Land Drainage Hub! tinyurl.com/DRAINAGE-HUB

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Join the #Cereals #LandDrainage conversation for machinery demos and the science on increasing yields + pros & cons: tinyurl.com/DRAINAGE-HUB

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we gotta talk about land drainage on some of the existing food productive agriculture land to enhance soil structure and avoid more land being farmed to make up for reducing yields

Some progress and some water areas. The importance of drainage can never be under valued. NZ demo is good.

🎟️ Scholars & potential Scholars are invited to join the #NuffieldFarming West Midlands group for a farm walk.

🐑 🐂 2022 Scholar Emily Padfield will host the event at her diversified beef & sheep farm in Warwickshire.

📩 To register please email [email protected]

Rich Maddever Tom Bradshaw And future generations benefit……

Rich Maddever Tom Bradshaw Effective drainage, where required, is a key part of building soil health. It’s a fundamental piece of the jigsaw.

Tom Bradshaw Drainage is the building block of farming and giving cash for direct drills etc is great but pointless if the land needs draining…yield, productivity, sustainability all point in one direction ⬇️

Tom Bradshaw The value of new drainage shown in January 2024. Credit to our farm installation team-Paul, John, Richard & Harry.

Land drainage systems that were a key boost to productivity in the 70’s are now failing.

A key aspect of national food security is how we build resilience and replacing tiring infrastructure is a critical piece of the jigsaw!

The value of land drains to cereal crop productivity writ large. The good bits are lighter land, or over drains. The run off from the road shows beautifully along the left hand hedge. Soils are still so cold spring crops not even showing from the sky.

James S. Peck My father has always said, you can’t farm wet land, he’s not too far wrong.

Found a wet hole, digging out eats time. Land drainage is critical to farming.

Finally wheels are turning. All systems go!! Rob Burtonshaw in to do some remedial work. Maize planting with companion crop. #SpringFinally

You may have noticed.

March was very wet.

Here’s some numbers around the wetness.

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England saw around one and a half times normal rainfall, following a February which had over twice average amounts of rain.

It was the 9th successive wet month.

My updated 4 year rolling England rainfall anomaly chart.

Almost half of all months were pretty extreme (either less than 50% or more than 150% of normal rain).

More very wet months than dry. 3 months more than twice average rain.

It’s going to get more extreme.

It’s been the wettest year and 18 months across England since records began in 1871.