Farm manager Simon Day is taking big strides in growing potatoes more sustainably and cutting their carbon footprint by widening his rotation, reducing costly cultivations and introducing cover crops to add organic matter. He has stretched his rotation for growing potatoes on his fertile silt soils at Worth Farms, Holbeach, south-eastern Lincolnshire, to one-in-eight years. […]
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