Other Soil Health Research

AMF CHEMICAL EFFECTS

• Effects of Fungicides on AMF
• AMF Endoprime
• AMF Fungicide Tips
• Fungicide Effects on AMF Root Colonization

AMF FUNGI

• ON-Farm AMF Inoculation Methods
• Gianinazzi: AMF inoculation by Ag Businesses
• GianinazzI: Why use AMF in Agriculture
• Menge: AMF Production in Agriculture
• Jordan: AMF Weed Suppression
• Kelly: Corn & Soybean response to AMF and P fertilizer
• Johnson: AMF yield decline explained in Continuous Corn & Soybeans
• Klironomos: AMF inoculation method differences

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI (AMF)

• The Huge Impact of AMF on Soil Health
• USDA: Glomalin Hiding Place for 1/3 of Worlds Soil Carbon
• AMF: Highways for Water and Nutrients
• Tillage and Cover Crop Effect on AMF
• Types of AMF Plants
• DR. Jones on AMF: Powerhouse of the Soil
• AMF Leaf Markers
• Kabir: Tillage or No tillage Effect on AMF

CARBON

• All About Carbon
• Can I increase SOM by 1%
• Blanco:  Building resilient soils
• Castellano: N-P-K Balances in healthy Iowa Soils
• Crops and Soils: Why is SOM so Important
• Gougoulias: Soil Microbes and Carbon Cycling
• Dr. Christine Jones-Acres: Save Our Soil
• Dr. Christine Jones- Evergreen: Building Soil Carbon
• Robertson: Climate Change, Yield, and Soil Carbon Storage
• Soil Carbon Sponge

CENSUS AND SURVEYS

• 2017 CTIC survey of cover crops
• Cover crop acreage increases 50% nationwide
• EWG: Indiana, Illinois, Iowa cover crop report 2016-2017

CEREAL RYE COVER CROP

• Cereal Rye Allelopathic Effect
• NCF2015: Root and Shoot Biomass in Cereal Rye

CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE(CA)

• Conservation Agriculture (CA)
• CA Increases Profits
• CA Increases Carbon Sequestration
• CA Diversification Increases Yields
  Soil Organic Carbon and Surface Water Storage

COVER CROPS

• Role of cover crops in improving yields
• Tile and Cover Crop Roots

COVER CROPS AND PESTS OR PESTICIDES

• Dunber: Armyworm Insect Injury to Corn Following Rye
• Douglas: Neonicotinoids destroy slug predators
• Herbicides in Cover Crops for Corn and Soybeans and Fall Cover Crops
• Lundgren: Winter Cover Crop Effects on Corn Rootworm
• Dr. Jill Clapperton: Pesticide Effects on Soil and Bees
• Pesticides and Bumblebee Decline
• Schappert: Weed control with cover crops
• Sorgoleone: Organic Herbicide from Sorghum
• SSSA: Soil Health, Cover Crops, and Yields from Dr. Van Es
  The Best Plants to Attract Pollinators

DR. HUBER

• Relationship between plant mineral nutrition and plant disease
• Managing nutrition to control plant diseases
• Mercola:  Effect of Roundup and GMOs on soil biology

DENIERS

• Carbon Farming Overhype
• When is it time to till a no-till field
  
  

FOODWEB

• Benefits of Healthy Food Web
• Pang: Unwrapping the rhizosheath
• Soil Sentinels: Harness the Power of Earthworms
• Sorensen: Microbes and soil temperature
• Wang: Soil microbe biomass in grass species
• Changes in bacteria after glyphosate
• Beare: Spheres of Influence
• How plants harness microbes to get nutrients
• Importance of anabolism in microbe control over soil carbon
• Microbial spatial footprint
• Mobile soil organisms and soil function
• Decomposition and Pest Suppression

HUMIC SUBSTANCES

• Acids and Exudates
• Pettit: OM Humic Substances
• Trends Life: Humic Acid from Wheat Bran

INOCULANTS

• Inoculant USDA-NRCS Technote
• Inoculating Legumes Pays Off
• Nitrogen Fixation in cover crops

METARHIZIUM FUNGI

• Metarhizium brunneum
• Midwest Biological Control: Metarhizium anisoplia
• Cornell: Metarhizium biological control
  
  

NITROGEN

• Cereal Rye and Nitrogen tie up
• Nitrogen fertility in no-till corn
• Nitrogen fertilizer suppresses SOM mineralization
• Root exudates shape N cycle
• Nitrogen Dilema

PHOSPHORUS

• Tradeoff between clean air and clean water
• Decreasing P loss by gypsum
• ZHU: Legacy P
• Phosphorus Uptake by Plants
• Hubert: Glyphosate and P loading
• P efficiency in agriculture
• Smith: P losses with conservation in Lake Erie
  
  

POLLINATORS

• The best plants to attract pollinators
  
  

SOIL HEALTH DENIERS

• Carbon Farming Overhype
• When is it time to till a no-till field?

SURVEYS AND CENSUS

• 2017 CTIC: Cover Crops boost yields and reduce weeds
• Census Study: Cover crop acreage increased 50%
• EWG: Cover crop acreage in Illinois and Indiana, 2015-2016

TILLAGE

• Tilling Grasslands reduces soil microbes and carbon
• Grigar: Transitioning to No-till
• Zuber: Tillage Effects on microbes and enzymes

WATER QUALITY

• Smith: Vertical tillage impact on water quality
• Chesapeake Bay Water Quality improves
• Gulf Nutrient Loading
• Harmful Algae Blooms (HAB) in Lake Erie
• What is causing HAB in Lake Erie
  Frozen Soil and Infiltration on Healthy Soils

MISCELLANEOUS

• Daigh: Minnesota Fluffy Soil Syndrome
• Lombardozzi: Cover crops may cause winter warming
• Mayer: Cover crops change soil temperatures
• The New Water Alchemist: Building Carbon and Water in Australia
• Phone App: Leaf Area Index