New imaging method views soil carbon at near-atomic scales
The Earth’s soils contain more than three times the amount of carbon than is found in the atmosphere, but the processes that bind carbon in the soil are still not well understood.
Worm-like, soil-swimming robots to measure crop underworld
Cornell researchers are teaming up to develop worm-like, soil-swimming robots to sense and record soil properties, the soil microbiome and how roots grow.
Calculating emissions of three major U.S. crops: corn, soybeans and wheat
Cornell researchers Peter Woodbury and Dominic Woolf have developed a calculator (for corn, soy and wheat crops) to quantify how soil health management practices can reduce greenhouse gas emissions in crop production.
Soil Health News Roundup
New research, farm profile, tool for quantifying soil health benefits, Cornell CALS dean brings soil health expertise, and more!
Northeast Cover Crops Council’s 2021 Video Contest
Show off your latest cover crop planting/project at our first ever Virtual Conference on March 4, 2021. Get filming this fall! Upon submittal, your video will be entered into our Cover Crop Video Contest where Conference attendees will vote on their favorite videos during the event!
Climate change and land use are accelerating soil erosion by water
This new research paper has used the latest projections of climate and land use change to assess global soil erosion rates by water over the period 2015-70.