Tag: soil health
Disease suppression of wheat take-all disease
The presence of soil-borne disease infection is not correlated to the presence of an infectious organism, but to the absence of suppressive microbes.
Here is an …
Spring applied planter solution products influence end of season cover crops
This is a field in Pennsylvania in December 2019.
It appears the section on the left has less residue, and possibly more cover crop growth.
The only …
Redox as a driver of soil/plant/microorganism systems
Contemporary mechanistic agriculture has been based largely on the development of genetics and chemistry.
The regenerative agriculture systems emphasize the development of biology and biophysics.
All the …
Manage-able data for soil nutrients
Data collection is only useful if you can use it to make management decisions. ‘Manage-able’ data in other words.
Soil analysis is still somewhat of an …
Bacterial resilience to antibiotics
Antibiotics were first discovered being produced by a soil-borne fungus. We have identified many different antibiotics that are made by plants and fungus, and even …
The bulls-eye of the wrong target
We have become masterful at hitting the bull’s eye of the wrong target.
A colleague sent me a recent article1 describing the discovery of a master …
