Webinar: Tracking Soil Health with Nicole Masters and Soilmentor
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- More than 90 farmers and others joined our ‘Tracking Soil Health’ webinar today with renowned agroecologist and coach Nicole Masters from Integrity Soils and the Vidacycle team!
Nicole discussed the soils and observations of three cropping farms from across Australia using the Soilmentor app and its regenerative indicators.
Nicole dug into the soils of three Australian grain growers to look at how they can improve their soil health. And discussed three soil health indicators (infiltration, rhizosheath score and rooting depth) using the Soilmentor app to understand how their soils are faring.
We know that tracking soil health is really important for farmers to understand whether their management decisions are moving their farm in the direction they want.
This webinar is part of our Cropping Resilience project where we have funding for Australian grain growers to use the Soilmentor app. Soilmentor is a tool that can help farmers to identify simple yet powerful indicators of soil health and biodiversity, monitor progress over time and make informed decisions.
Nicole Masters has 20+ years experience in regenerative farming systems, practices, coaching and community-building across Australasia, North America, and the United Kingdom. She is the author of For the Love of Soil which equips producers with knowledge, skills, and insights to regenerate ecosystem health and grow farm profits.
I believe that for the crack in the soil where the root follows its route, the crack or fissure occurs very frequently due to expansions and contractions of clays in these vertisol soils. The time between the saturated soil and the physical contraction resulting from moisture loss is very short, between that period the fissures are very frequently present.
Now I think if your pH is high the problem is your Carbon in that part of the 4.5 to 5.5 inches of depth, and the hydrogen potential is low. There is an imbalance in C:N.
An example of why scientists cannot lead in Regen Ag. The 5 basics (no till, armour, living/biodiverse roots, animal impact) are understood to be the substance of Regen practice. Constant testing and keeping precise records is time-consuming and can only serve to reaffirm what the naked eye can see in the quantity and quality of life above ground. As Roger Savory clearly argues: data from decades cannot reliably inform practitioners in *non-closed systems such is nature.* The professional farmer (basic #6?) employs compost-derived amendments to accelerate the Regen process, preferably home-grown using the variety of methods, to find those that suit his patch of paradise.
I think you are partly right, the frequent life, the intimacy of life in the processes of indigenous farm activities gives you a qualitative awareness. But scientific tools give you the ways to change the causes of these quality responses, allowing you to be directional towards an improvement and give a push towards an expected and programmed response. You cannot be at both extremes of the processes.
@@trinidadmoncada2429 Yeah, I did say 'lead'. Agronomy in general would suggest turning a degraded property into cells to see what works, but that cannot provide relevance because the next season's metrics will be different (Roger Savory). Applying the 5 fundamentals begin the Regen process immediately.
And if you expect worm colonies you won't see them, because you maintain EC greater than 2.5 ds/m r and the worm doesn't find it a pleasant environment.
Could u give a URL link to this info? Never heard of it before and would like to learn more.