Eco Prospects: Cumbria’s Soil Sampling and Soil Health Advisors
Soil Sampling
By investing in soil sampling you can improve crop quality and yield, enhance your planning capabilities, comply with environmental regulations, and access natural or sustainable farming incentives.
Nutrient Management
We combine software solutions and expert advice so that you can make real-time adjustments and informed decisions. This leads to efficient nutrient use, sustainable practices, and improved crop performance.
Soil Health
By focusing on soil biology and understanding the key influencers, we can provide long- and short-term plans tailored to your farm’s specific soil type. This guides you in managing and improving your soil health.
Who are Eco Prospects?
Eco Prospects are independent advisors on soil health and nutrient management. The advantage of being independent is that we can provide unbiased and unrestricted advice. Be assured that your soil and crop health will benefit from comprehensive experience and knowledge. Ben Goad, Eco prospects’ proprietor is Fertiliser Advisor Certification and Training Scheme certified and maintains professional register status.
Being independent also means that we are not obliged to sell one specific brand or product, instead we can choose from several. This enables us to always offer the best solution for your farm in terms of soil and crop nutrition.
We will recommend products that we think are the most appropriate and that will provide you with the most benefits. The recommendations we give to one farm may be very different to another farm because as an independent advisor, Eco Prospects is able to match the right solution and products for each individual farm. We don’t have to fit our clients’ requirements into a restricted range of products or solutions.
In the current climate with rising energy and fertiliser prices, in conjunction with environmental and government policy, having a thorough understanding of your farm’s inputs has never been so important. The simplest and most efficient way to do this is to measure what is in your soil with multiple samples from each field, rigorous analysis in independent soil testing laboratories followed by detailed reporting. From there we can give a detailed series of recommendations to suit your farm’s business and compliance needs.
Based on the results we will match the best approach in terms of inputs, from lime, fertilisers and manure. This knowledge and expertise is based on 20 years of experience matching soil and crop needs with manures and soil science that unpicks the nature of the particular soil you care for.
