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*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE*

*for sustainable agriculture and land management*

Dear Subscribers,

Please see herebelow the Solvita September Newsletter.

Apologies for any cross-posting.

*Amir Kassam *

*Moderator*

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URL: www.fao.org/ag/ca



*Conservation Agriculture is an ecosystem approach to sustainable
agriculture and land management based on the practical application of
locally adapted  three interlinked principles of: (i) Continuous no or
minimum mechanical soil disturbance (no-till seeding/planting and weeding,
and minimum soil disturbance with all other farm operations including
harvesting);  (ii) permanent maintenance of soil much cover (crop biomass,
stubble and cover crops); and (iii) diversification of cropping system
(environmentally, environmentally and socially adapted rotations and/or
sequences and/or associations involving annuals and perennials, including
legumes and cover crops), along with other complementary good agricultural
production and land management practices. Conservation Agriculture systems
are present in all continents, involving rainfed and irrigated systems
including annual cropland systems, perennial systems, orchards and
plantation systems, agroforestry systems, crop-livestock systems, organic
production systems and rice-based systems (more at: *www.fao.org/ag/ca).


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From: Woods End Laboratories/Solvita <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 3:34 PM
Subject: Solvita September Newsletter
To: Amir Kassam <[log in to unmask]>


September 2018 Newsletter
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*Soil CO2 Respiration Methods in the Spotlight*
Solvita is a leading test for soil CO2 respiration and is often used as
a framework for comparison to other newer respiration methods. A new study
compares selected long term No-Till vs conventionally managed soils across
9 regions of Oklahoma by using Solvita compared to Gas Chromatography.
Results were split to other labs running Solvita and two types of IR
methods.  So far, Woods End Lab and the University of Maine have
independently obtained virtually identical results for the same soils
raising interesting questions about miniaturizing microbial tests ... Read
full blog
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*Universal Soil Health? Pitfalls lead to Progress.*
Soil health testing is popular, but less popular is scoring everyone's soil
against the same yardstick –  without taking account of the soil
eco-region. Presently, that’s common practice with labs offering soil
health tests according to Woods End Lab. A new approach offered with Woods
End’s Soil Health Audit modifies the
*"A summary of 1,000 soil tests covering 8 climatic zones and 9 soil orders
gave the remarkable result that most farms were scoring close to their
expected soil health benchmark."*
Will Brinton
generalized “universal” ranking or indexing adding a calculation that takes
account of the soil’s eco-physiographic zone. The result is a
region-specific scaling for the test, making it more accurate.
There are in the USA 12 Soil Orders each with many sub-orders, arranged
more or less vertically across multiple horizontally expressed climatic
zones, making for much local variation within the same soil type. Woods End
subdivides the country into ... read more
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*Watch No-Till Farmer webinar with Doug Miller from Midwest Bio-Tech to
learn more about the Solvita Soil Health Suite
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