These case studies have been drawn together from across the arable, horticultural and livestock sectors and cover farmers who have pioneered solutions to soil-related issues they have experienced. The soil strategy improvements are outlined, and experts highlight, not only how problems have been alleviated but the spin-off production, economic and environmental benefits for the businesses.

See below for a link to FWi Academy and the opportunity to get BASIS points.

No.	Soil Factor	Enterprise
1	Water Erosion    (190kb)	Potatoes, carrots, winter wheat, winter oats, spring barley.
2	Compaction    (311kb)	Potatoes, outdoor pigs, combinable crops
3	Wind Erosion    (568kb)	Potatoes, onions, carrots, barley, sweet corn, sugar beet, triticale
4	Compaction     (834kb)	Potatoes, winter and spring combinable crops
5	Wind Erosion    (446kb)	Lettuce, endive, baby lettuce/brassica, herbs and spinach
6	Capping and Slumping    (1043kb)	Bulbs and cut flowers
7	Water Erosion    (680kb)	Asparagus, other vegetables
8	Slumping and Capping    (687kb)	Cereals, oilseeds, beans, potatoes
9	Water Erosion     (168kb)	Combinable crops
10	Wind erosion    (978kb)	Combinable crops
11	Waterlogging    (546kb)	Wheat, barley, oilseed rape, beans
12	Compaction    (1013kb)	Combinable crops
13	Yield variation    (965kb)	Cereals and dairy
14	Compaction    (762kb)	Beef
15	Water erosion     (593kb)	Pigs
16	Poaching    (891kb)	Dairy
17	Compaction    (500kb)	Dairy

Farmers Weekly are publishing articles about 5 of these case studies, which are also on their website at www.fwi.co.uk/academy. Each academy contains a guide to a major soil issue, a profile of one of the case study farmers who's successfully addressing it, and a self-test, on-line questionnaire. An e-mail link at the end lets you submit your results for 2 BASIS points.

The academies feature:

Compaction, with Fraser Milne, featuring Chichester grower Nick Baird (case study 2)
Capping and slumping, with Nick Caspell, featuring Cornwall grower Arthur Andrews (case study 6)
Water erosion, with Colin Stride, featuring Malvern farmer Austin Knowles (case study 13)
Wind erosion, with Fraser Milne, featuring Suffolk grower Tim Pratt (case study 3)
Poaching, with Mark Tripney, featuring Yorkshire farmer Tom Rawson (case study 16)