Talk with Gabe Brown and you quickly discover he bubbles over with thoughts about sustainable soil management. “Healthy soil is so amazing. It’s truly alive, and there are a lot of things going on down there that we still don’t understand,” he says. The agricultural soil management techniques Brown uses on 2,000 acres just outside […]
Effective soil management practices through the use of Pro-Soil agricultural products is the key towards increasing soybean crop yield and preserving farmland. The excessive erosion of topsoil from farmland caused by intensive tillage and row-crop production has caused extensive soil degradation and also contributed to the pollution of both surface waters and groundwater. Organic wastes […]
Pro-Soil FOUNDATION 1-0-1 has consistently boosted crop yields in comparative studies in Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and elsewhere with different hybrids, under a variety of conditions and in no-till to conventional tillage operations. In independent, replicated trials on Corn and Soybeans conducted by Phoenix Technologies in Southwestern Kansas in 2008, Pro-Soil FOUNDATION […]
Jodi Dejong-Hughes digs deep into her soil research as a University of Minnesota Extension educator. In-field soil pits are one of her favorite teaching tools for revealing to farmers the importance of deep soil structure – and the and the importance of soil management. Her message is twofold: What occurs on top can either enhance […]
Preserving soil-the most basic of all resources has never been more important to our future. The world’s farmers face the daunting task of doubling food production by 2050 to feed a global population that’s expected to number around 9 billion people. Options are limited for bringing in new land suitable for high crop yield. And […]
