The soil-plant-microbe dance
June 29, 2020
Micaela Tosi, Eduardo Kovalski Mitter, Jonathan Gaiero, and Kari Dunfield. 2020. It takes three to tango: the importance of microbes, host plant and soil management to elucidate
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Updating our understanding of the soil organic matter-crop yield connection
May 13, 2020
Alison King, Genevieve Ali, Adam Gillespie, Claudia Wagner-Riddle. 2020. Soil organic matter as catalyst of crop resource capture. Frontiers in Environmental Science. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2020.00050Research summary
Making headlines!
April 27, 2020
Our soil scientists have been in the news lately! Find out what they’re up to in the articles listed below: Study shows added benefits of
No season lasts forever
April 24, 2020
Who could have predicted that this is how we would start the new decade? COVID is well on track to break every health crisis record
Reducing nitrogen losses with 4R fertilizer management
April 7, 2020
Banger, K., C. Wagner-Riddle, B.B. Grant, W.N. Smith, C. Drury and J. Yang. 2020. Modifying fertilizer rate and application method reduces environmental nitrogen losses and
Measuring soil organic matter with your smartphone
March 31, 2020
Fu, Y., P. Taneja, S. Lin, W. Ji, V. Adamchuk, P. Daggupati, Biswas, A. 2019. Predicting soil organic matter from cellular phone images under varying
Impact of Pastures and Forages on Soil Organic Carbon in the Great Clay Belt of Northern Ontario
March 26, 2020
Article written by Cameron Ford, Marketing & Development Coordinator, Northern Ontario Farm Innovation AllianceReposted with permission from: https://www.nofia-agri.com/post/carbon-sequestration-and-agricultural-land-uses On February 13 2020 Susantha Jayasundara, Research
Managing cover crops in Ontario – north, south, east, and west
March 11, 2020
A new multi-year, multi-site cover crop research project is kicking off this spring in Ontario. Read about it in this Ontario Grain Farmer Magazine article,
Finding a trusted soil health test
March 2, 2020
Hargreaves, S.K., P. DeJong, K. Laing, T. McQuail and L.L. Van Eerd. 2019. Management sensitivity, repeatability and consistency of interpretation of soil health indicators on
Measuring soil health improvements with cover crops in vegetable production
February 24, 2020
Chahal, I. and Van Eerd, L.L. 2019. Quantifying soil quality in a horticultural-cover cropping system. Geoderma 352: 38-48. doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2019.05.039.Research summary written by Cameron Ogilvie Key
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