Regrouping
June 7, 2021
You can’t stay on the mountaintop forever. After an incredible start to 2021 with the Midwest Cover Crops Council Conference in February, we’ve been taking
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Estimating soil’s ability to hold water by combining field sensor measurements
June 4, 2021
Reem Zeitoun, Mark Vandergeest, Hiteshkumar Bhogilal Vasava, Pedro Vitor Ferrari Machado, Sean Jordan, Gary Parkin, Claudia Wagner-Riddle, and Asim Biswas. 2021. In-situ estimation of soil
Nitrogen inhibitors reduced N2O emissions without permanently changing soil microbial communities
April 13, 2021
Mica Tosi, Shannon Brown, Pedro Ferrari Machado, Claudia Wagner-Riddle, and Kari Dunfield. 2020. Short-term response of soil N-cycling genes and transcripts to fertilization with nitrification
Crop rotation diversity improves yield resilience
April 12, 2021
Timothy Bowles, et al. 2020. Resilience to adverse growing conditions in North America. One Earth 2: 284-293. doi:10.1016/j.oneear.2020.02.007Study Summary by William Milson and Cameron Ogilvie
Virtual adventures
March 30, 2021
Wow! What a busy start to 2021! With the Midwest Cover Crop Council Conference wrapping up in late February and gearing up for planting season,
When More Isn’t Better: Thoughts from the world’s #1 management thinker on farm resilience
March 18, 2021
“I have a view worth hearing, but I might be missing something.” This is the attitude of an innovator described by top business mind, Roger
Focus on continuous living cover, not adding more crops to rotation, to see soil carbon gains
January 27, 2021
Alison King, Katelyn Congreves, Bill Deen, Kari Dunfield, Myna Simpson, Paul Voroney, and Claudia Wagner-Riddle. 2020. Crop rotations differ in soil carbon stabilization efficiency, but
Tillage, crop rotation, and their effects on soil health
January 4, 2021
Laura Van Eerd, Katelyn Congreves, Adam Hayes, Anne Verhallen, and David Hooker. 2014. Long-term tillage and crop rotation effects on soil quality, organic carbon, and
Finding the right fungus
December 17, 2020
Originally posted in Farmtario: https://farmtario.com/crops/finding-the-right-fungus/?module=carousel Do you have fungus? Your fields certainly do, though the varieties vary based on several factors. While tillage levels, rotational
Trapping carbon in agricultural soils with Wollastonite
December 17, 2020
Fatima Haque, Rafael M. Santos, and Yi Wai Chiang. 2020. CO2 sequestration by wollastonite-amended agricultural soils – An Ontario field study. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas
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