Delivering a decision-support framework - soilquality.org.uk

该项目旨在设计、开发和实施一个创新的基于网络的决策支持平台（soilquality.org.uk），以改善英国可耕地和低地草地系统的土壤管理。在澳大利亚，利用征税资金，通过soilquality.org.au满足了农民对管理土壤健康工具的需求。soilquality.org.au平台提供了在强大的决策支持框架内比较单个测试结果的能力，这是独一无二的，受到农民组织的高度重视。与澳大利亚的合作者合作，我们将更新，扩展和适应英国的条件，建立土壤质量监测框架-soilquality.org.au。通过利用移动的设备的能力扩展现有框架，该项目将纳入从感应和人工采集的指标中获得的数据，包括在实地获得的数据，以提供及时的支持，并对土壤状况进行以农民为重点的分析。我们新的英国决策支持平台（soilquality.org.uk）将整合现有测量土壤质量指标（主要是化学指标，也有一些物理和生物指标）的解释，以及可用于解决任何已确定的生产限制因素的管理策略信息。为了开发英国的平台，我们将把农民，顾问和科学家聚集在一起，建立伙伴关系，以支持开发和提供基于网络的决策平台，满足农民，农业组织和政策制定者的需求，允许所有利益相关者在规划和管理长期弹性和可持续的作物和草地生产时考虑特定地点的土壤质量问题。该项目团队建立在强大的现有合作关系的基础上，这些合作关系已经在农业行业中开发和应用土壤科学超过15年;综合方法将把纽卡斯尔大学SRUC和应用研究/咨询（GWCT，ADAS，BGS）的项目团队的优势与农业和咨询部门联系起来。英国土壤管理不善使农民因产量损失而付出代价，并导致负面的环境影响。采用soilquality.org.uk框架预计将大大降低这些成本。通过使用基于网络的创新平台（soilquality.org.uk）实现的土壤管理方法的转变将支持英国可持续的生产性耕地和低地草地系统。

This project aims to design, develop and implement an innovative web-based decision support platform (soilquality.org.uk) for improved soil management in UK arable and lowland grassland systems. Using levy funding, farmers' demand for tools to manage soil health has been met in Australia through soilquality.org.au. The soilquality.org.au platform, which provides the ability to compare individual test results within a robust decision-support framework, is unique and highly valued by farmers' organisations. Working with collaborators in Australia, we will update, extend, and adapt to UK conditions, the established soil quality monitoring framework - soilquality.org.au. By extending the existing framework using the capabilities of mobile devices, this project will incorporate data from sensed and manually captured indicators, including in the field, to provide timely support and give a farmer-focused analysis of soil conditions. Our new UK decision support platform (soilquality.org.uk) will integrate interpretation of existing measured soil quality indicators (largely chemical with some physical and biological) together with information on management strategies that can be used to address any identified constraints to production. To develop the platform for the UK we will bring together farmers, consultants, and scientists, within a partnership to support development and delivery of a web-based decision platform that meets the needs of farmers, farming organisations, and policy-makers allowing all stakeholders to take site-specific soil quality issues into account when planning and managing resilient and sustainable crop and grassland production for the long term. The project team is built on strong existing collaborative relationships which have developed and applied soil science within the agricultural industry for over 15 years; an integrated approach will link the strengths of the project team at Newcastle University, SRUC and in the applied research/consultancy (GWCT, ADAS, BGS), with the farming and advisory sectors. Poor soil management in the UK costs farmers money as a result of lost production and also leads to negative environmental impacts adoption of the soilquality.org.uk framework is expected to significantly reduce these costs. The transformation in approaches to soil management enabled through use of the innovative web-based platform (soilquality.org.uk) will support sustainable productive arable and lowland grassland systems in the UK.