Soil health testing is certainly popular, but much less popular should be scoring everyone against the same yardstick -  without taking account of the soil eco-region. Presently, that's common practice with labs offering soil health tests. A new approach offered with...

  How do Organic Farming Systems compare with Conventional when it comes to soil biology? Data shows the differences in % of biologically-managed farms compared to conventional, as defined by the study authors.   FIBL (Switzerland) and University Wageningen...

Soil health testing may well have come about due to events 40 years ago this summer. In 1977, The Ministry of Agriculture of Baden-Württemberg (Germany) released a definitive study which compared conventional farming methods with “biological” - defined as farms using...