Soil 16S and ITS2 data from pasture grasslands managed by members of the Pasture-Fed Livestock Association, UK

Data comprise soil microbial data collected from active pasture farms in the summers of 2018 and 2019. Data collected was supported by the Global Food Security Programme funded by UKRI, grant number 06211. Soil microbial data includes bacterial (16S small subunit ribosomal RNA) and fungal (internal transcribed spacer region 2) amplicon sequences obtained via Illumina MiSeq sequencing. Samples from 2018 comprise one sample per farm and are labelled with the farm number. In 2019 samples were collected from at least 2 fields per farm, and from multiple quadrats in each field, and are labelled as FQ e.g. 55F2Q1 is the sample from farm 55, field 2 and quadrat 1. Further information on the farms can be found at: https://doi.org/10.5285/78ca9a01-107b-4f33-8561-9c3e64db7e02