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31 Jul 2025
🚜 Grassland Growers & Advisors — Help Shape the Future of Nutrient Planning 🌱
Join @niabgroup & Soil Benchmark this August for hands-on workshops where you’ll:
🧪 Try our digital NMP tool
💬 Share your insight
📘 Influence how RB209 is applied for grassland
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📍 Workshop Dates & Locations:
🗓️ Aug 6 – Penrith
👉 eventbrite.co.uk/e/152397327…
🗓️ Aug 12 – Exeter
👉 eventbrite.co.uk/e/153593047…
🗓️ Aug 13 – Winchester
👉 eventbrite.co.uk/e/153593791…
Try the tool. Have your say. Shape the future of grassland nutrient planning.
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Soil Benchmark retweeted
12 May 2025
Threat of legal action forces @DefraGovUK secretary @SteveReedMP to "retake" decision to close Sustainable Farming Incentive scheme without notice
12 May 2025
A threatened legal challenge coordinated by the NFU & its members, which asserted that ministers acted illegally in suddenly closing the 2024 SFI scheme without notice in March, has forced the government to rethink.
More to follow...
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Soil Benchmark retweeted
12 Mar 2025
Small farmers in the Uk are being driven to the wall - first through the removal of the old single farm payments and now with the end of the SFI environmental scheme - the damage to families and rural communities will be deep and permanent.
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Soil Benchmark retweeted
11 Mar 2025
They hate the farming community.
11 Mar 2025
🙄 Farmers across England are facing another devastating setback following the Labour government’s decision to stop accepting new applications for the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) scheme.
READ MORE: ow.ly/bXyM50Vg48v
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6 Dec 2024
🚜 To all #farmers preparing for next week's rally
Please enjoy a little #food for thought on behalf of Soil Benchmark🪱
*** Obviously a joke! ***
⛔️ Don't actually bring machinery
❤️ Please stay positive, tidy, and respectful
Make your voices heard (with a sense of humour)!
We #BackBritishFarming and stand with farmers during this trying time.
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Soil Benchmark retweeted
5 Dec 2024
Soil forms, stores, transforms & recycles nutrients, supporting 95% of the food we eat.
Protecting it is essential for the health of people, animals, and the environment.
Thursday is #WorldSoilDay. fao.org/world-soil-day/en/ via @FAO
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Soil Benchmark retweeted
12 Nov 2024
People currently finding out that there is no such thing as an average UK farm.
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25 Nov 2024
🚜 Farmers, agronomists, advisors! 🌱
🥶 Got a pile of Soil / Manure Management Plans to get through this winter?📋
For #SFI funding or NVZ/FRfW inspections, we’ve got you! ✅
💻 Free webinar:
🗓 Nov 26, 12 PM: lnkd.in/e8WQ9Kdr
🗓 Dec 17, 12 PM: lnkd.in/eqVRXs_C
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25 Nov 2024
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Soil Benchmark retweeted
15 Nov 2024
Congratulations to @SoilBenchmark and Even, who took first place in our Startup and University categories at the Santander X Awards. Exciting times lie ahead, and we wish them every success for the future.
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18 Nov 2024
🚨 Message for tomorrow’s #Farmer Rally 🚜
Obviously a joke 🤣:
⛔️ Don't actually bring machinery!
❤️ Stay positive, tidy & respectful!
We stand with #farmers at this stressful time. Make your voices heard (with a sense of humour)!
@JeremyClarkson @agricontract @TWBFarms
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