Strategies for Rapid, Long-Term Structural Remediation Tender

• Country: United Kingdom
• Summary: Strategies for Rapid, Long-Term Structural Remediation of Compacted Agricultural Soils
• GBT Ref No: 133942809
• Deadline: 06 Mar 2026
• Financier: Self Financed
• Purchaser Ownership: Government
• Tender Value: Refer Document
• Notice Type: Tender
• Document Ref. No.: C32752
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• Background Conventional intensive agriculture has, for the past 70 years, relied on a system of agricultural interventions to grow food, characterised by intensive tillage, use of agrochemicals and frequent periods of bare soils or monocultures. This regime has resulted in widespread soil degradation, with our arable soils containing the least carbon, lowest diversity of soil fauna and highest density of all UK soils (Countryside Survey, 2007 soils report). Regenerative agriculture now hopes to address this soil degradation while maintaining productivity by adopting techniques that more closely mirror natural processes, such as avoiding soil disturbance, sowing diverse crops, maintaining plant cover, and ensuring ongoing supply of organic matter. However, despite abundant evidence that, in the long-term, regenerative techniques are better for maintaining soil structure and function, a transition from a previously degraded soil to a regenerative, e.g. no till, approach may result in little recovery from soil degradation, provide poor returns for the farmer, and may result in farmers returning to the conventional techniques they'd previously abandoned. Approaches are required to rapidly return a degraded soil to a state which is resistant to degradation and resilient to the impacts of regenerative techniques, to enable farmers to fully embrace regenerative approaches and benefit from them in the long term, and which can be encouraged through agri-environment schemes, as part of...
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