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Soil Carbon Topics

An inter-laboratory comparison of soil organic carbon analysis on a farm with four agricultural management systems. [PDF]
Should Organic Growers Sell Their Soil into Carbon Markets? [PDF]
Soil mass correction for a more accurate determination of soil carbon stock changes [PDF]
Evaluating soil carbon at depth: Probing soil’s secrets [pdf]

Systems Studies in Farming

What’s Your Compost Energy Index [PDF]
Will Regenerative Replace Organic? [PDF]
Plastic Fragments in Compost [PDF]
International Compost Standards [PDF]
New Evidence for Microplastics from bioplastics [PDF]
Concerns for plastics in organic systems [PDF]
Composting Plastic Coated Paper Products [link]

Science and Lab Issues

Soil Classification and Health

Spatial variability of urban forest topsoil properties [PDF]

Original Woods End Lab text

Fertile Soil Book, by R. Parnes

Microbiome Quality Detection

Noteworthy Contributors*

Biosecurity of Farming Systems [InfoGraphic]
The ‘soil health’ metaphor: Illuminating or illusory? [Jrnl]
The Soil Carbon Sequestration “Scandal” [Newsstory]
A new hypothesis for the origin of Amazonian Dark Earths [PDF]
Managing for Carbon: Lets Get Realistic [PDF]

* These papers are selected outside contributions from other scientists and thinkers.

All the talk … about soil carbon, plants and CO2, carbon sequestration and oh, biochar

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