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Government needs to take soil health seriously, urges EFRA committee

The report recommended the Government to fund the widespread, standardised testing of soil through its Environmental Land Management schemes and to work with industry on an agreed set of metrics of soil health by next year

Rachael Brown
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Government needs to take soil health seriously, urges EFRA committee

On World Soil Day (December 5), the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee ( EFRA) called for soil health to be put on ‘the same footing' as water and air quality when it comes to government policy....

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