03/04/2026
It’s Real.
It’s happening more often.
Our changing climate is bringing weather extremes with severe impacts on how and what we farm.
The extreme temperatures of July 2022 caused drought and heat stress to food production and nature.
Wanting to know more about the effect on our farm production we temperature probed the soil beneath our established grassland and that of stubble (Oil Seed R**e) within half a kilometre (another farm).
The results speak for themselves. High temperatures and drought diminish soil function.
Climate change is real. Nature is telling us. Our lived experience is showing us. We lost over 1000 mature trees to Storm Arwen in 2021. We have had further unprecedented damaging weather extremes including weeks of heavy rain since.
Soil and Farmers are at the frontline of Climate Disruption. Protecting functioning soils from extremes is farming’s most important task along with producing food (with nature).
As society tackles carbon emissions farmers in society can do these tasks to keep soils functioning:
🌳 Keep them covered with living plants
🌳 Keep living roots in the soil
🌳 Keep soil disturbance to a minimum
🌳 Increase species and habitat diversity
🌳 integrate livestock to supercharge soil functionality
🌳 Eliminate plant & animal toxic agriculture-chemicals
Sharing dependable knowledge, experience, solutions and hope is an essential Public Good. Farmers can do this too!
The soil temp results concur with results for that period from Rothamstead Research Station
