A position paper from the Soil Association that discusses the inclusion of soil organic matter (SOM) in the Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs’s new mandatory soil testing. The paper addresses the policy as part of its discussions of the ‘Farming Rules for Water’.
SOURCE: Soil Association
Our soils support 95 percent of all food production, and by 2060, our soils will be asked to give us as much food as we have consumed in the last 500 years. They filter our water. They are one of our most cost-effective reservoirs for sequestering carbon. They are our foundation for biodiversity. And they are vibrantly alive, teeming with 10,000 pounds of biological life in every acre.
The Purdue Soil Health photo and video library gives you easy access to photos and videos that may be useful in your efforts to inform and educate others about soil health.
The Purdue Soil Health photo and video library gives you easy access to photos and videos that may be useful in your efforts to inform and educate others about soil health.
Soil Basics includes lessons on soil origins, profiles, components, structure, pesticides, and ag soils.
Soil Health section topics include how a healthy soil should look and smell, economics, increasing OM, and urban gardening.
This resource hub from For the Love of Soil offers teaching materials, including slides, assignments, videos and virtual field trips, for use in soil science courses.
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