Soil Maven & Tractor
Kat Hunter, a SymSoil Soil Maven, and Peter Hirst, part of the SymSoil Science Team spent a good day on site yesterday.
#SoilFoodWeb
Data and AgTech
Outsiders are becoming aware of the role of technology in farming. As rural and bucolic as our image of farming is, for decades, farmers have been on the cutting edge of multiple types of technology. The next big thing is going to be biologically active soil. The soil microfauna, which had been killed off …
NPR Discusses Soil Microbe Genes
NPR’s Dan Charles, on All Things Considered/Food For Thought talks to scientists about soil microfauna. These scientists are focused on understanding and describing the most common ones. They miss the point. There are more than a billion different species in a handful of healthy soil. Finding a small number of “important ones” does not replace the …
Soil Microbes Impact Which Plants Live
The Smithsonian magazine published an article about the soil microbiome. You can call them microbes or by more scientific names, but these are the microscopic creatures that keep plants alive
Soil Food Web (insight from FAO)
Life, as we know it, could not exist without the soil microbe ecosystem