Strategies for Rapid, Long-Term Structural Remediation of Compacted Agricultural Soils
- Published
- 19 January 2026
- Submission deadline
- 6 March 2026
- Estimated value
- £700,000
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Lots
- 1
- Documents
- 1
- Notice number
- 004554-2026
- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-06094d
- Official source
- Official source
CPV codes
- 73110000Research services
Description
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 r…
Official publications
- FTS · 004554-2026 · 19 January 2026
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