The study began back in 1993, tested corn and tomatoes, using conventional, cover crops, and cover crops with compost. Carbon was monitored throughout the 2 meter soil profile. The only treatment whic

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Merry Christmas All, Thought I'd drop a lump of hi-tech coal in your stockings. Carbon foam looks like a high-quality biochar from the description by the USFS. The recent winners of the Keeling Curve

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An article appearing in the June 2020 issue of Harpers Magazine, Ground Control: How forests adapt to climate change, by Drew Pendergrass, regrettably creates some mistaken impressions about the viabi

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There is evidence that the Carboniferous age occurred in part because plants invented lignin oh, and it took bacteria and fungi a long time to figure out how to make lignin degrade.

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Has Kelpie, with her biochar burns of dead windrow trees in N.D. and the aerial photos of the seemingly dead round burn spots out West, tested in anyway how deep/longlasting the negative soil life imp

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Link: https://www.nrcresearchpress.com/page/cjss/cfp CANADIAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE Special Issue: Biochar Amendments for Sustainable Soil Management Submission deadline: September 30, 2020 Rational

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No mention of biochar, but this concentration of ownership results in monocultures and industrial farming that is destroying soil fertility. Kim https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/24/far

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A renowned organic farmer here in Maryland told me that he does a deep till about every 4 to 5 years to combat weeds. If he is using a sub-soiler, he may be doing more good than he realizes. A meta-st

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