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Soil health assessments: how and why?
Author(s) -
Karlen Douglas L.,
Obrycki John F.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
crops and soils
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2325-3606
pISSN - 0162-5098
DOI - 10.2134/cs2019.52.0210
Subject(s) - soil health , environmental science , sampling (signal processing) , soil management , agricultural engineering , soil survey , environmental resource management , soil water , geography , environmental planning , hydrology (agriculture) , soil science , computer science , engineering , soil organic matter , geotechnical engineering , filter (signal processing) , computer vision
The information presented in this article comes from an on‐farm soil health assessment study in central Iowa. Researchers utilized available farm management records to design a sampling strategy that represented the predominant soil map units and provided soil that was analyzed for biological, chemical, and physical indicators of soil health. Earn 1 CEU in Soil & Water Management by reading this article and taking the quiz at www.certifiedcropadviser.org/education/classroom/classes/627 .

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