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Soil Information Viewer

Alberta Agriculture and Forestry has a number of extremely useful tools on its website. One of the best is the Soil Information Viewer, which provides varying levels of soil information to many different groups. Harry Brook, crop specialist at the Ag-Info Centre, provides some of the background.

Interview with Harry Brook (4:23 minutes) (2.00 Mb)

 
 
Source : Alberta Ag and Forestry

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