Continued from last week: Using a tool known as Soil Foodweb Analysis on the Menoken Farm, owned by the Burleigh County Soil Conservation District, Fuhrer showed total bacteria in the soil more than tripled from 2005 to 2010 and total fungi increased by about one-third. The soil was also initially low in beneficial nematode numbers, […]
Talk with Gabe Brown and you quickly discover he bubbles over with thoughts about sustainable soil management. “Healthy soil is so amazing. It’s truly alive, and there are a lot of things going on down there that we still don’t understand,” he says. The agricultural soil management techniques Brown uses on 2,000 acres just outside […]
Effective soil management practices through the use of Pro-Soil agricultural products is the key towards increasing soybean crop yield and preserving farmland. The excessive erosion of topsoil from farmland caused by intensive tillage and row-crop production has caused extensive soil degradation and also contributed to the pollution of both surface waters and groundwater. Organic wastes […]
