by Woods End | Sep 19, 2011
The “Old Rotation” trial at Auburn University, AL has been continuously managed since 1896 (126 years) and is one of 3 of the oldest running research plots in the USA (in Europe, the Rothamsted plots have been running 160 years). Recent monitoring of the...
by Woods End | Jun 6, 2011
Public and private USA soil labs are lining up to offer Woods End’s latest protocol: a soil test that simulates the biological CO2-burst following moistening of dry soil. The phenomena of a respiration spike has been observed by soil scientists to...
by Woods End | Dec 12, 2008
Woods End offers exciting new technology when it comes to bio-degradation studies. The bio-laboratory has digital imaging capability to help visualize what’s really happening over time as a material is “eaten” by soil microbes. In this case,...
by Woods End | Sep 20, 2006
Woods End presented a prototype of the soon to be released Digital Color Reader (DCR) to accompany Solvita test kits, to participants of the ORBIT-2006 Congress in Weimar this week. Woods End plans to market a combination “Sovita + DCR” kit using classic...
by Woods End | Jun 20, 2003
Researchers at OSU have completed and published a full validation study of Woods End’s Solvita compost maturity test kit. Preliminary results of the research were first presented at the International Compost Symposium at OSU in May, 2002. The full paper is...
by Woods End | May 10, 2002
A Swiss study published this week in Science reveals numerous benefits to soil systems where among other factors compost is routinely included as part of the farming system, such as in biodynamic practice. The Swiss Research Institute for Biological Farming (Frick,...
