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OUR SOIL, OUR SOUL Healthy soils are our most important resource. The soul of Ingleby. As long-term land owners, we constantly work to improve the quality of our soils. Crop production involves soil disturbance to some extent, that might result in soil erosion. Therefore, we use practical farming approaches that support crop production while effectively protecting the soils. We improve our soils by leaving sufficient crop residues on the ground, using cover crops and minimum tillage, maintaining healthy crop rotations, and adding compost and livestock manures where available and cost effective. We also contour plough, add nutrients to avoid depletion, use non-chemical weed controls, satellite-guided input applications and tractor-wheel path tracking. We define and monitor our soil’s qualities in relation to its ability to support crop growth. We assume that by improving soil properties that contribute to improved crop production, we also contribute to the other environmental services that soils provide.
INGLEBY FARMS // FARMING WITH NATURE
