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 manipulation strategies for the plant
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 by Alison King and Cameron
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 wheat in rotation By Jennifer Glenney,
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 for the last half-century (at
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 increases corn yield in Ontario.
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 soil moisture. Geoderma: 114020. doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2019.114020
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 Associate in the School of
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, or see the project link
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 organic farms in southwestern Ontario.
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 messages This study compared 3
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