An Experimental Case Study for Soil Health
Webinar Details
When:
Jan 16, 2014 2:00 pm US/Eastern
Length: 01:04 (hh:mm)
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Reviewed for Continued Content Relevance: 04/2017
Presenter(s):
- C. Wayne Honeycutt, Ph.D., Deputy Chief for Science and Technology, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Washington, D.C.
CEU Credits/Certificate Offered:
- Certificate of Participation
- Conservation Planner (CP) - 1 hour Conservation Planning Credit
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To enhance adoption of soil health management systems, it is important that soil health benefits be demonstrated with statistically rigorous research. Join the webinar to learn about an experimental case study where improving soil health increased crop yield as much as supplemental irrigation.
Potato yield in Maine has remained relatively constant for over 50 years, despite increased nutrient and pesticide inputs. To identify what was limiting productivity, cropping systems were designed and implemented to reduce one or more potential constraints to productivity. Status Quo, Soil Conserving, Soil Improving, and Disease Suppressive cropping systems were established and evaluated under both rainfed and irrigated management for their impacts on plant growth and yield, soil chemical-physical-biological properties, tuber diseases, soilborne diseases, foliar diseases, economics, and their interactions.
Learn about the effects of the cropping systems on soil properties, how plant growth and yield responded to changes in soil health, and how management systems that improve soil health can reduce supplemental water needs.
C. Wayne Honeycutt, Ph.D. is currently the Deputy Chief for Science and Technology, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. He served as a Research Soil Scientist for 14 years and a Research Leader for 10 years at the USDA-ARS New England Plant, Soil, and Water Laboratory where he led and conducted interdisciplinary research on nutrient cycling and sustainable cropping systems. Join us for this unique opportunity to learn how plants responded to improvements in soil health.
This webinar is presented by the USDA NRCS National Soil Health and Sustainability Team located at the East National Technology Support Center.
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