by Woods End | Oct 26, 2021
Woods End Laboratories LLC has received funding in a collaborative USDA Project assessing carbon reserves in lands under CRP (Conservation Reserve Program). This first of a kind project combines geo-spatial modelling, soil sampling and soil analyses to quantify and...
by Woods End | Jul 23, 2021
LaboratorA long-term study by the University of Guelph shows the usefulness of Solvita® soil tests as tools to predict soil health. The study, published in the September 2021 edition of Soil and Tillage Research, shows Solvita tests enabled a high level of certainty...
by Woods End | Dec 18, 2020
Soil health is a popular concept, often promoted as “regenerative” farming or “carbon farming” and more, yet it is traceable to very early challenges to conventional farming which triggered the new field. At the recent 2020 Soil Sci Society meetings, Will...
by Woods End | May 11, 2020
Soil tests to examine soil health first arose half a century ago as the new alternative farming movement put pressure on scientists to allow scrutinizing farming systems for potentially deleterious soil effects. But how much does soil testing itself cause deleterious...
by Woods End | Feb 11, 2020
Many persons have recently discovered soil biology at hand of simple demonstration tests – a “popular” one being “soil my undies”, where a pair of briefs are buried randomly in soil and unearthed a little later to see to what extent the...
by Woods End | Jan 11, 2019
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...
