About this episode

The episode discusses the testing of soil health principles in Iowa and their implications for long-term soil health and improvement.

"Putting the Soil Health Principles to the Test in Iowa, USA" with Dr. Marshall McDaniel and Hillary Olson Soil health principles can help guide farmers in best practices for long term soil health and improvement. However, it's important to test these principles across locations and contexts to see how their implementation is actually shaping soil health. In this episode, Marshall and Hillary join me to discuss testing the soil health principles in Iowa and how this might be expanded into further regions. Tune in to learn: · What the soil health principles are · Which soil health indicators are fast or slow movers · Why it's difficult to weight soil health principles · What future research is yet to be done If you would like more information about this topic, this episode's paper is available here: https://doi.org/10.1002/saj2.20761 This paper is always freely available. Contact us at podcast@sciencesocieties.org or on Twitter @FieldLabEarth if you have comments, questions, or suggestions for show topics, and if you want more content like this don't forget to subscribe. If you'd like to see old episodes or sign up for our newsletter, you can do so here…

People in this episode

Guests: Dr. Marshall McDaniel, Hillary Olson

Topics covered

• soil health
• agriculture
• research
• best practices
• Iowa

Keywords

• soil health principles
• Iowa
• agriculture practices
• soil indicators
• research

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ASA, CSSA, SSSA

Books & works: Putting the Soil Health Principles to the Test in Iowa, USA

Places: Iowa

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