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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...
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...
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 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...
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 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...
Soil health testing is certainly popular, but much less popular should be scoring everyone against the same yardstick - despite the location. Presently, that's common practice with labs offering soil health tests according to Woods End Lab. A new approach offered...
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...