Joel Williams, Integrated Soils In part 1 of this article, we highlighted that both urease and nitrification inhibitors have a minor impact on soil biology but there remains some concern over the negative impact of urease inhibitors on the plants ability to take up and metabolise the urea form of nitrogen [N] – a favourable …
Joel Williams, Integrated Soils Reductions in nitrogen fertiliser use and associated greenhouse gas (GHG)emissions is of course high on the agenda in recent times – you’d have to be living under a rock to have missed this memo! In many countries around the world, we are seeing legislation from governments striving to limit the release …
Joel Williams says this season presents some wonderful opportunities to test and trial some new approaches towards optimising N inputs – valuable lessons can be learnt for future seasons ahead. With fertiliser prices the way they are, I’m sure everyone is already thinking it is going to be an eyebrow raising season ahead. This year …
Using A Diversity Of Nitrogen Forms To Enhance Foliar Efficiencies Read More »
Written by Joel Williams In the last article we introduced the various habitats that exist on and within plant tissues where a range of microbes coexist with plants and provide many benefits to growth and development. Despite the majority of microbiota living around plant root systems, there are also a range of microbes that also …
Written by Joel Williams When we begin to unpack the complex world of soil, of course there are many factors that contribute to the optimum functioning of a ‘healthy soil’ – be that chemical, physical or biological. That said, it is clear that soil biology specifically has played an instrumental role in catalysing the recent …
Optimising Soil Biology And Nutrition For Crop Production Read More »
Written by Joel Williams Soil Biology – two words that have become commonplace in the lexicon of the farming community in recent years, and rightly so. Biological interactions are of course as important as the physical and chemical interactions that make up the fascinating medium we call soil. Among all the groups of organisms that …
Permanent soil cover! One of the three pillars of conservation agriculture and rightly so. There are numerous benefits to soil health and crop production that stem from this foundational soil protective principle. However, in recent years there has been an expanding body of research into soil ecology and soil organic matter [SOM] formation and this …
Rethinking Permanent Soil Cover – Joel Williams Read More »
