UK farmers to be given first ever targets on soil health

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New bill will be first step by ministers to protect and restore soil as fears grow over a future soil fertility crisis

A new bill will be brought before parliament this year mandating, for the first time, measures and targets to preserve and improve the health of the UK's soils, amid growing concern that we are sleepwalking...

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