Soil is key as Norfolk estate prepares for end of subsidies

Soil is key as Norfolk estate prepares for end of subsidies
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Chris Allhusen, David Pike and Andrew Melton © MAG/David Jones
Improving soil health is key for one Norfolk farming estate as it looks to cut crop inputs and raise yields to prepare for a future without direct farm subsidies.
After three years of focusing on the farm’s light-to-medium sandy clay loams, fertiliser inputs are now falling, herbicide costs are set to come down and crop yields forecast to rise.
Owner Chris Allhusen is using long rotations, reduced cultivations and cover crops to improve his arable soils after he suspected that they were becoming degraded and blackgrass was flourishing.

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