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Podcast: Key Principles To Soil Health

What are some key principles surrounding soil health? Jay Fuhrer, soil health specialist with the United States Department of Agriculture, outlines five of them.

Interview with Jay Fuhrer (3:39 minutes) (1.67 Mb)

Source : Agriculture and Forestry

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Soil Improvements for Maximum Microbial Activity

Video: Soil Improvements for Maximum Microbial Activity

What’s really happening beneath the soil surface?

If we want to grow nutrient-dense, resilient crops, we need to build an environment where soil microbes thrive. That means:

Keeping soil covered—no more bare, sunbaked fields!

Breaking compaction layers so roots can reach deeper moisture and nutrients

Feeding microbes with cover crops and living root exudates

Fix the soil environment, and the microbes will do the rest.