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Broad Acre Crops · Cereals · Disease Management · Holistic Management · Livestock · Soil Biology · Soil Health · Winter Wheat · World Ag News

Grazing livestock on winter cereals could help aid soil biology

Grazing livestock on winter cereals could help aid soil biology, allow for earlier drilling dates, control pests and influence yields, according to a trial.
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Soil Health · World Ag News

Could better soil health mean more nutrient-dense grains?

Many consumers wonder if the nutrient density of those crops is less than crops grown before the advent of modern agriculture. Are we growing a high quantity of lower-quality food?
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Beef · Livestock · Regenerative Agriculture · Soil Health · World Ag News

How much hay trampled is optimal?

How much hay trampled is optimal? By focusing on feeding soil biology while unrolling hay our pasture health improves each year
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Regenerative Agriculture · Soil Health · World Ag News

Smartsoil Ground Cover – Stuart McAlpine – Regenerative Agriculture

Stuart McAlpine is a farmer from the Buntine Maya area in Western Australia farming 5000 acres and practicing regenerative farming methods since 2006.
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Nutrition Management · Soil Health · World Ag News

Litter and soil characteristics mediate the buffering effect of snow cover on litter decomposition

In cold biomes, snow cover mitigates the harsh winter soil conditions, thereby enhancing overwinter decomposition of organic matter which controls the availability of nutrients for plants and microbial uptake at the beginning
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Soil Health · World Ag News

Hard to crack research reveals how crop roots penetrate hard soils

Scientists have discovered a signal that causes roots to stop growing in hard soils which can be ‘switched off’ to allow them to punch through compacted soil.
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Holistic Management · Soil Biology · Soil Health · World Ag News

Researchers call for greater consideration of soil biodiversity and functions in international conservation strategies

The authors of the new article in Science see this as a big problem: “If we do not protect soils for the next generations, aboveground biodiversity and food production cannot be guaranteed
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Soil Biology · Soil Health · World Ag News

Are endophytes essential partners for plants and what are the prospects for metal phytoremediation?

Phytoremediation of soil contaminated by trace elements is a technology using plants and microorganisms to sequester, inactivate, or extract contaminants from the soil.
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Holistic Management · Regenerative Agriculture · Soil Health · World Ag News

The soil beneath our feet might save the planet.

The soil beneath our feet might save the planet.
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Cover Crops · Holistic Management · Soil Health · World Ag News

Early Lessons from Ridgetown’s Long-term Cover Crop Trial for Field Crops

Dr. Dave Hooker and his colleagues have been curious about the value of integrating cover crops into a farming operation in the long term. These questions have remained unanswered by numerous short-term
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