Introducing TRUTH
Thriving Roots Underpinning Total soil Health –
TRUTH is a three-year £1m research programme, led by BOFIN alongside four partners. It is funded by the Farming Futures R&D fund, part of Defra’s Farming Innovation Programme which is delivered by Innovate UK. Project number: 10085980.
This project will deliver two key innovations:
– A farmer-led platform comprising on-farm soil/root health testing tools validated during the project with ‘Root Rangers’, farmers who are trained to use it to inform SSM practices and to evaluate novel genetics and bioproducts.
– An in-field soil health sensor, which provides >10 soil health indicators, bringing in the measurement of microbial diversity and fungal:bacterial ratio.
The Soil Circle is the farmer-led community for the TRUTH Project. It’s free for all to join and offers farmers the opportunity to exchange valuable knowledge. Click here to join now.
Project Duration
2024 – 2027 (3 Years)
Project Partners
BOFIN
University of Nottingham
John Innes Centre
UK Agri-Tech Centre
PES Technologies
360 degree view of soil health
The Root Rangers have been given a unique view of their soil structure and root systems through X-ra…
Combining expertise to unearth soil’s secrets
Unearthing the secrets of the soil microbiome comes a step closer when farmers and research scientis…
Moving soil testing from the lab to the field
A revolutionary soil health analysis tool that can ‘smell’ a soil’s biological signature is being pu…