Items Tagged with 'soil organic carbon'

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Soil Sampling: Understanding the Importance & Methods

June 29, 2023 | Posted in Soil Health

To get a complete picture of how an agroecosystem is doing, you have to look at what’s happening below the ground. One way to do so is with soil testing, which measures a wide range of soil characteristics and data points, including pH, organic matter, and microbial activity.

U of I Takes Soil Carbon Monitoring High Tech

March 3, 2022 | Posted in Precision Agriculture, Soil Health

Source: University of Illinois

Hyperspectral sensing and AI pave a new path for accurately estimating soil organic carbon, say researchers from the University of Illinois.

Soil Function Key to Regenerative No-Till

Putting soil health at the center of a no-till operation can take a farm from status quo to truly regenerative with balanced and diversified soil biology, improved aggregate stability, increased water infiltration rates and improved nutrient cycling.

By Dan Crummett posted on February 24, 2022 | Posted in Cover Crops, Nutrient Management, Soil Health

Longtime soil conservationist Barry Fisher says improving soil health requires well-planned, step-by-step actions aimed at specific goals. However, taking those steps can seems daunting, especially if they add complexity to a system that seems to be working well.

Study: Intensive Nitrogen Stymies Organic Carbon Accumulation

By Brian O'Connor posted on December 17, 2021 | Posted in Nutrient Management

University of Illinois’s natural resources and environmental sciences professor Richard Mulvaney wanted to know why soil organic carbon matter is disappearing from agriculture fields despite years of intensive residue inputs. So he set out to determine whether nitrogen fertilization might change the composition of corn residue, and whether that impacted carbon sequestration as a result.

Canada Gets Mixed Grades in First-Ever Soil Health Report Card

By John Dobberstein posted on July 22, 2020

The Soil Conservation Council of Canada (SCCC) released its first-ever “national soil health report card” to grade how soil measures compare from one part of the country to another. Read on to find out how Canadians made the grade.

[Podcast] Rattan Lal on the Role of Soil in Conservation Agriculture

For this episode of the No-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Pivot Bio, we caught up with soil scientist Rattan Lal and talked about how he came to focus on carbon instead of synthetic inputs, the connection between the health of the soil and human vitality, how carbon affects the soil’s ability to hold onto nutrients and water, the 5 components of conservation agriculture, optimizing production instead of maximizing production and much more!

By Julia Gerlach posted on July 16, 2020 | Posted in Nutrient Management, Soil Health

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Understanding the Science and Economics of Soil Health

By Zouheir Massri posted on April 15, 2019 | Posted in Nutrient Management, Soil Health

Continuous improvement of crop yield is dependent on how growers invest and sustain the soil ecosystem to withstand environmental threats and stripping of key nutrients needed to sustain agriculture, says researcher Dr. Zouheir Massri.

From the Desk of John Dobberstein

‘Old World’ Tool for Semi-Arid Water Woes

February 28, 2019 | Posted in Soil Health, Water Management

A drought-tolerant grass that repels harmful ants and horn flies in livestock grazing can do great things for your soils as well.

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A Lesson in Quorum Sensing, and What Matters in Your Soils

February 14, 2019 | Posted in Soil Health

A speaker at No-till on the Plains shares some fascinating information about quorum sensing and its potential to harness the power of microbes to improve water retention in soils and produce food of higher nutritional quality.

Long-Term Tillage and Soil CO2 Fluxes

March 7, 2018 | Posted in No-Till Farming 101, Residue Management, Soil Health

Source: University of Nebraska

A research fellow at the University of Nebraska compares no-till and several different kinds of tillage operations to measure how soil disturbance affects the loss of soil carbon.

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Effects of Cover Crops, No-tillage & Tillage on SOC Sequestration, Storage, Retention & Loss - Kenneth Olson - NNTC 2015 Presentation - MP3 Download

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Ken Olson will share results of a 12-year cover crops study in southern Illinois on the effects of soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration, storage and retention, as well as corn and soybean yields. The use of cover crops was studied on these previously eroded soils for its maintenance and restoration of SOC, and different tillage systems were set up with and without cover crops.

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No-Till Legend Concerned About Corn Profits in 2024

On this episode of Conservation Ag Update, brought to you by Martin Till, Vincennes, Ind., no-tiller Ray McCormick explains why it’s going to be tough to “not lose a lot of money this year” on corn. Plus, we ask our readers, “On a scale of 1-10, how concerned are you about drought this year?” Hear why some farmers are worried, and why others aren’t very worried at all.

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