Question: So, you are a Consultant Soil Scientist. What do you do? And what is interesting about your job?

Daniel Baird answered on 7 Mar 2018:

Most of my work is to inform planning decisions. If a field is taken for housing development, what is the quality and versatility of that farm land? Is the need for the development so high that the loss of that land is justified, would it be better somewhere else, how does the loss of farmland balance against other criteria like ecology, landscape, hydrology, cultural heritage, transport …