

Iorwerth Watkins
441 posts

@catchmentyog
Welsh. Senior farm adviser for Westcountry Rivers Trust. I believe that soils are our future, treat them well and let them lead the way ...


















Au lendemain de la crue du Vénéon qui a tout emporté à la Bérarde (Isère), le hameau de Saint-Christophe-en-Oisans, n’est plus qu’un champ de ruines. Découvrez les images aériennes filmées par Le Dauphiné libéré samedi matin. 📹 @lagneux





🔴Cumul de 106.7mm/1h à Cossé-le-Vivien (#Mayenne) sous un #orage stationnaire. En dehors du quart Sud-Est (pourtour Méditerranéen + Haute-Loire), il s'agit du cumul horaire le + élevé jamais mesuré sur une station Météo-France en métropole ! Données MF via @meteociel


This is the result of clear cutting corn fields for large dairies. There is at least a 1000 acres in my neighborhood like this. No cover left to hold back water. No cover crop planted. Manure pits are knifed in the fall and tilled again in the spring to plant more corn for silage. Water infiltration rates are terrible so the soil and nutrients run off. Fields with last year's crop residue are not doing this. Minnehaha County, SD. #SoilHealth is lacking. #erosion is terrible.

We use 30 year averages to show climatology (average weather conditions). During the 20th century the UK climatology followed a path around a confined box. With #globalwarming and #climatechange they have escaped out the box. This #dataviz shows UK rainfall and temperature.

Wheat going in the ground in CQ 🇦🇺 @JohnDeere 9510RT dragging 36m of @MultiFarming banana planter steered by a custom @VnetPrecisionAg Active guidance, seed and fert supplied by @simplicityaus 20,000l cart, this rig helps get #plant21 going fast @VanderfieldAU @JohnDeereAUNZ

We've been really grateful at @Riverford to have had a lot of help over the years from the @WestcountryRT when it comes to trying to better manage our soil erosion risks. Great to have Wendy out today, explaining it all to the wider farm team so that everyone's on the same page.



