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Holistic Management · Soil Health · World Ag News

Use of Mineral Weathering Bacteria to Enhance Nutrient Availability in Crops: A Review

Rock powders are low-cost potential sources of most of the nutrients required by higher plants for growth and development. However, slow dissolution rates of minerals represent an obstacle to the widespread use
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Cover Crops · Holistic Management · Soil Health · World Ag News

Perennial groundcover mixes with row crop

Perennial groundcover systems couple a high-yielding annual row crop with a perennial grass groundcover, such as bluegrass or fescue. In this low-tillage system, the PGC reduces soil erosion, builds soil carbon and
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Holistic Management · Soil Health · World Ag News

Fixing tillage-damaged soils takes tough love

Dramatic improvements to soil structure will occur after tillage stops. It just takes time.
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Beef · Holistic Management · Livestock · Soil Health · World Ag News

Let’s get intense — cattle producer amps the density in his system

Ryan Boyd will put 400 yearlings on a quarter-acre as part of a system to boost forage productivity.
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Holistic Management · Soil Health · World Ag News

Conflicting Stories, Messages Don’t Help Watersheds or No-Till Adoption

If we’re ever going to get anywhere with increasing conservation practices and fixing environmental issues in our watersheds we need to get consistent with the messaging.
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Soil Health · World Ag News

Responses in Zinc Uptake of Different Mycorrhizal and Non-mycorrhizal Crops to Varied Levels of Phosphorus and Zinc Applications

Negative effects of high phosphorus (P) application on zinc (Zn) nutrition have been observed in many crops. This study investigated the Zn responses of three typical crops to varied P and Zn
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Soil Health · World Ag News

Biochar Alters Soil Physical Characteristics, Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Colonization, and Glomalin Production

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Holistic Management · Soil Health · World Ag News

Soil health coalition formed in Pennsylvania

The Pennsylvania Soil Health Coalition, founded by 15 partner organizations, will focus on farmer support, educational events and research projects.
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Holistic Management · Plant Health and Pest Resistance · Soil Health · World Ag News

Healthy soils suppress pests

Healthy soils suppress pests Farmers who improve soil health increase the amount of soil carbon being stored, and recycled. The increased carbon flow increases microbial numbers and efficiency leading to improved plant
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Soil Health · World Ag News

Origin of carbon in agricultural soil profiles deduced from depth gradients of C:N ratios, carbon fractions, δ 13 C and δ 15 N values

Agricultural soils in Germany store 2.54 Pg of organic carbon (C). However, information about how and when this C entered the soils is limited. This study illustrates how depth profiles of organic
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