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），以改善英国耕地和低地草地系统的土壤管理。在澳大利亚，农民对土壤健康管理工具的需求通过socialquality.org.au得到了满足。soilquality.org.au平台提供了在一个强大的决策支持框架内比较个别测试结果的能力，是农民组织所高度重视的独特平台。与澳大利亚的合作者合作，我们将更新、扩展并适应英国的条件，建立土壤质量监测框架- soilquality.org.au。通过利用移动设备的功能扩展现有框架，该项目将纳入来自感测和人工捕获指标的数据，包括在现场，以提供及时支持并对土壤条件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）将整合对现有测量土壤质量指标（主要是化学指标，还有一些物理和生物指标）的解释，以及可用于解决任何确定的生产限制的管理策略信息。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，在一个伙伴关系中支持开发和交付一个基于网络的决策平台，以满足农民、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的弹性和可持续的作物和草地生产时考虑到特定地点的土壤质量问题。项目团队建立在强大的现有合作关系之上，这些合作关系已经在农业领域发展和应用了超过15年的土壤科学；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。在英国，由于土壤管理不善，农民损失了生产，也导致了负面的环境影响。采用soilquality.org.uk框架有望显著降低这些成本。通过使用创新的网络平台（soilquality.org.uk），土壤管理方法的转变将支持英国可持续的生产性可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.