Mount Vernon, Maine, June 9, 2022- Woods End Laboratories LLC, a US based leader in agricultural soil health testing, announced that Rebecca Harvey, PhD has joined the organization as Chief Executive Officer. Rebecca will lead the organization to further grow its...
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LAB CONSISTENCY AND ROBUSTNESS FOR SOLVITA TESTS EXAMINED
WOODS END LAB released findings of the 2021 Solvita Proficiency test examining performance of thirty soil labs worldwide which use Solvita for soil quality tests. Four soil types were selected including fallow and arid rangeland, and intense tilled organic and...
Solvita Nexus Soil Tests Linked to Satellite Yield Stability Maps
Composite satellite images that show long-term yield trends have traditionally not correlated well with soil tests. This suggests that dominant forces in yield sustainability are not being captured in the way soil testing is conducted. Soil health tests also are not...
Woods End Laboratories LLC awarded USDA Project to Assess Climate Benefits of Perennial Grasses in CRP Lands
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...
Solvita® Soil Tests confirmed through long-term field research as valuable testing tools for evaluating Soil Health
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...
On the True Origins of Soil Health Testing
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 Brinton and...
Soil health: scrutinizing farming systems, or soil lab practices, or both, for deleterious effects?
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...
What’s Your Soil’s Decomposing Power?
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 cotton fabric has decomposed....
Tillage Effects of Organic vs No-Till over a single season.
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...