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原系统的土壤管理。利用征税资金，澳大利亚农民对管理土壤健康的工具的需求通过soilquality.org.au得到了满足。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、扩展并适应英国的条件，已建立的土壤质量监测框架-soilquality ity.org.au。通过利用移动设备的能力扩展现有框架，该项目将纳入来自感测和手动捕获的指标的数据，包括田间指标，以提供及时的支持，并提供以农民为重点的土壤条件分析。我们新的英国决策支持平台(soilquality.org.uk)将整合对现有测量的土壤质量指标(主要是化学指标以及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的信息。为了为英国开发这一平台，我们将在合作伙伴关系中将农民、顾问和科学家聚集在一起，支持基于网络的决策平台的开发和交付，该平台满足农民、农业组织和政策制定者的需求，使所有利益相关者在规划和管理具有弹性和可持续的作物和草原生产时，能够考虑到特定地点的土壤质量问题。项目团队建立在已在农业行业内开发和应用土壤科学超过15年的现有合作关系的基础上；综合方法将把纽卡斯尔大学、SRUC和应用研究/咨询(GWCT、ADAS、BGS)项目团队的优势与农业和咨询部门联系起来。英国糟糕的土壤管理因产量损失而给农民造成了损失，也导致了负面的环境影响。采用soilquality ity.org.uk框架预计将显著降低这些成本。通过使用创新的网络平台(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原系统。

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.