No-Till Farmer editors encounter a variety of articles, social media posts, podcasts and videos that offer a unique look at the grower's realm from the lofty digital realm. Here is our favorite content from the past week from across the web.The Best of the Web series is brought to you by Purple Cow Organics.
No-Till Farmer editors encounter a variety of articles, social media posts, podcasts and videos that offer a unique look at the grower's realm from the lofty digital realm. Here is our favorite content from the past week from across the web.The Best of the Web series is brought to you by Direct Enterprises.
According to the Soil Health Institute, healthy soil that is rich in carbon acts like a sponge to soak up rainfall and store it for crops. While farmers have known this for a long time, it has been hard for scientists to predict how much extra water farmers can expect when they use regenerative agriculture practices that improve soil carbon.
The work will utilize metagenomic and carbon data collected as part of the North American Project to Evaluate Soil Health Measurements. Metagenomics is the examination of genetic material outside of the environment.
To support growers in their transition to regenerative soil health systems, the Fund will establish soil health and soil carbon targets for their farms, assess the economic and environmental benefits of soil health practices in cotton production and will provide education programs through farmer-to-farmer mentoring networks.
According to the Soil Health Institute, data collected and analyzed across 100 farms in 9 states shows that soil health management systems increased net income for 85% of those growing corn and 88% of those growing soybeans.
Many growers in the semi-arid parts of the Great Plains are getting used to hearing that improving soil health will help them store more water in the soil for their plants.
A soil health webinar series launches today as part of the Soil Health Institute’s Healthy Soils for Sustainable Cotton project. New episodes will be offered weekly from now until mid-May on the Institute’s YouTube Channel and Soil Health Training webpage.
A research economist at Texas A&M University and a soil scientist with the Soil Health Institute researched why Texas producers choose to, or not to, adopt soil conservation and soil health measures and discuss what they found.
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On this episode of Conservation Ag Update, brought to you by Martin-Till, Brian and Darren Hefty, fourth-generation farmers and hosts of Ag PhD, share tips for treating tar spot in corn.
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