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Popular & Sundry Articles

Soil Carbon Topics

An inter-laboratory comparison of soil organic carbon analysis on a farm with four agricultural management systems. [coming soon]
Should Organic Growers Sell Their Soil into Carbon Markets? [PDF]
Soil mass correction for a more accurate determination of soil carbon stock changes [PDF]

Systems Studies in Farming

What’s Your Compost Energy Index [PDF]
Will Regenerative Replace Organic? [PDF]
Plastics in your Compost [PDF]
International Compost Standards [PDF]

Science and Lab Issues

Soil handling in the lab affects CO2 respiration, amino-N and water stable aggregate results [PDF]
The Great Humus Debate [PDF]
Variability of Soil Carbon Measures[pdf]

Soil Classification and Health

Spatial variability of urban forest topsoil properties [PDF]

Microbiome Quality Detection

Occurrence of Fecal Indicators and Pathogenic Bacteria in Market-Ready Recycled Organic Matter Composts
A New Sense of Quality Comes to Compost
Complexity and Charade in the World of Soil Microbes [PDF]

Noteworthy Contributions

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]

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