Written By Laura Barrera and first published on AgFuse.com If you want to make smart, well-informed decisions on your operation, you need relevant, high-quality data to support those decisions, says Tim Laatsch. A great way to achieve this? On-farm research. An Illinois-based farmer, Laatsch knows first-hand the importance of on-farm research. As the Director of …
Written by Lancaster University, UK A major new international study has provided a first worldwide insight into how soil erosion maybe affecting the longevity of our soils. The study, led by Lancaster University in collaboration with researchers from Chang’an University in China, and KU Leuven in Belgium, brought together soil erosion data from around the …
Written By Laura Barrera and first published in AGFuse.com When it comes to fertility in crop production, nitrogen is one of the most critical nutrients involved. “Nitrogen plays an important part in many essential functions and compounds necessary for life,” says the University of Missouri Extension and can be found in various parts of plants. …
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Written by Denise Attaway, Clemson University, South Carolina USA Phosphorous is one of six essential nutrients for plants and a Clemson University doctoral candidate wants to show farmers how organically growing cereal and pulse crops can improve nutrition while lowering production costs. Sarah Powers is a doctoral candidate in the Clemson Plant and Environmental Sciences …
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In this article, Jason Pole explores the crop-friendly fungi focus of one of our crop PhD studentship projects, funded by AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds If your crop roots are in good nick, there’s a decent chance they’ve cuddled up with some potentially powerful soil allies: arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF). The word ‘mycorrhiza’ stems from two …
Written by Sally Morgan who edits Organic Farming magazine smorgan@soilassociation.org With ruminants getting bad press at the moment over their methane-filled belches, Sally Morgan looks at the science and the critical role of methane-eating microbes Are ruminants really to blame for the rapid increase in methane levels over the last decade? There is no denying …
The UK Soil Observatory (UKSO) is an award-winning and free-to-use online service that enables everyone to view soil datasets from nine research organisations. Russell Lawley (Geo-Properties and Resources Team Lead) from the British Geological Survey explains how the resource has developed to provide significant benefits to the agricultural sector, what information you can expect to …
By Jerry Alford. Innovative Farmers and Dominic Amos, Organic Research Centre This Innovative Farmers project brings together organic and conventional notill farmers to investigate the potential for implementing a long-term system with the aim of maintaining a perennial living mulch of white clover whilst growing an annual combinable cash crop. The benefits are widespread, from …
As interest and integration of cover crops accelerate across the world, the industry has been challenged in its ability toprovide easy to access, comprehensive information. Recently, a cover crop application company in the USA called GOSEED have developed the Cover Crop Information Map to provide a free, centralized platform for knowledge exchange. “The Cover Crop …
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Abstract from D. L. Antille, W. C. T. Chamen, J. N. Tullberg, R. Lal The drive toward adoption of conservation agriculture to reduce costs and increase production sustainably causes concern due to the potentially negative effects of increased soil compaction. Soil compaction reduces aeration, water infiltration, and saturated hydraulic conductivity and increases the risk of …
