by Will Brinton | Jan 11, 2019 | News
Tillage is an increasing topic of discussion. Organic is viewed as largely a tillage based system where cultural and mechanical tools include frequent cultivation and often intensive rototilling for weed control. These practices are increasingly criticized as causing...
by Will Brinton | Aug 27, 2018 | News
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...
by Will Brinton | Apr 12, 2018 | News
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...
by Will Brinton | Jul 4, 2017 | News
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...
by Will Brinton | Feb 3, 2017 | News
A new study about spatial variability of soil tests conducted by University of Connecticut has found that common analyses for OM, K, P, Ca and Mg have much higher variability than thought, ranging between 42 and 93% – in other words, “extremely variable”. The...
