ADAS Equine, a leading provider of specialist consultancy services for environmental land management and sustainability solutions for horse owners, has partnered with British Dressage to become the Official Equine Environmental & Sustainability Partner. Offering advice on how we can effect our impact on the environment through land and yard management.
The value of muck!
As horse owners, we spend much of our time removing droppings, collecting them in heaps, and often getting someone to take those away. However, those heaps contain valuable nutrients and organic material that can actually help to improve your pasture.
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Soil compaction
We talk a lot about soil nutrition but compaction is an important part of the soil health puzzle - let's take a look at what it is, how it happens, and what to do about it.
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What is your energy use?
Energy consumption is an area that we are all familiar with. There are two approaches to reducing the climate impact of energy consumption.
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Mind your P&K!
Besides nitrogen, the most important plant nutrients are phosphorus (shortened to P) and potassium (shortened to K – we don’t make the rules!!). Both nutrients are critical to life for all plants, needed for photosynthesis, healthy root growth, and even forming the building blocks of DNA.
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How to manage our grass over winter
Winter poses a range of challenges to the equine land manager - excess rainfall (and we have definitely had plenty of that already this winter) combined with horses is a recipe for mud! Regular trampling of waterlogged soils also creates an increased risk of compaction.
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Managing Nitrogen
We are focussing on what is probably the most well-known plant nutrient: Nitrogen.
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Mighty micronutrients
Fertilising grassland often focuses on the major plant nutrients, but what about the little guys – micronutrients?
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