How Organic Practices Affect the Soil Microbiome Webinar

About the Webinar
This webinar presents research from the first year of the NIFA ORG Project "Leveraging soil microbiomes to promote climate change resilience and adoption of organic agriculture". Evidence suggests that organic management increases the diversity of beneficial soil microbes for plant roots. However, scientific evidence remains scarce on the specific organic production practices that promote soil organism diversity consistently across fields and their functions in crop resilience. This webinar will feature studies from two soil microbiome projects conducted in New York State by Cornell University researchers. In the first study you will receive information from Elias Bloom on specific practices that consistently shifted soil microbiomes across more than 85 organic farms in New York State that donated their soil for microbiome sequencing and analysis. Results will also be presented by Zoe Economos from a multi-year manipulative cover cropping experiment by using no-tillage and soil microbiome transfer experiments to determine which cover crops are most effective at increasing crop resilience through changes in the soil microbiome. Accompanying the researchers will be presentations by local organic farmer stakeholders: Jason Grauer and Jack Algiere of Stone Barns Center, and Zaid Kurdieh of Norwich Meadows Farm. They will describe their farms and highlight their efforts to manage the microbiome and soil health. Learn more about this project at eorganic.info/...