Cornell Soil Health Assessment: A Diagnostic Approach for Evaluating and Managing Soil Health
Webinar Details
When:
Feb 10, 2015 2:00 pm US/Eastern
Length: 01:14 (hh:mm)
Advance Registration NOT required.
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Presenter(s):
- Bianca Moebius-Clune, Ph.D., Director, Soil Health Division, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Washington, DC
CEU Credits/Certificate Offered:
- Conservation Planner (CP) - 1 hour Conservation Planning Credit
- Society for Range Management (SRM) - 1 hour SRM Credit
Virtual Event Format:
Group Viewing Available:
Viewers will learn how to interpret a Cornell Soil Health Assessment, and how to use this in planning and implementing practices toward alleviating diagnosed constraints and maintaining better soil health.
Soil health constraints beyond nutrient limitations and excesses currently limit agroecosystem sustainability, resilience to drought and extreme rainfall, and progress in soil and water conservation. On much of today’s agricultural land these constraints are predominantly biological and physical in nature. These constraints must be identified and managed explicitly. The Cornell Soil Health Assessment is an integrative dynamic soil health assessment combining physical, biological, and chemical measures of soil characteristics as indicators of the functioning of important soil processes. This webinar will provide an overview of background and basis of the tool, how to interpret a Cornell Soil Health Assessment, and how the field-specific information on constraints can be used in prioritizing and adapting management decisions, planning a management transition adapted to the farm, and implementing a targeted system of practices to improve and maintain soil health.
In the Soil Health and Sustainability series, this webinar is presented by USDA NRCS Science and Technology.
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