Understanding Soil Quality Impacts on Soil Functions and Other Resource Concerns
Webinar Details
When:
Jun 29, 2011 2:00 pm US/Eastern
Length: 01:18 (hh:mm)
Advance Registration NOT required.
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Reviewed for Continued Content Relevance: 08/2016
Presenter(s):
- Jim Hoorman, Cover Crops and Water Quality, The Ohio State University Extension
CEU Credits/Certificate Offered:
- Certificate of Participation
- Conservation Planner (CP) - 1 hour Conservation Planning Credit
Virtual Event Format:
Group Viewing Available:
Participants learn about nutrient management and healthy soils, and the resulting effects on water quality through a study of mechanisms for increasing soil organic matter, providing habitat for soil microorganisms, and improving soil quality.
Natural vegetative ecosystems create a steady stable state in which the litter and roots produced move into the various soil organic matter pools, forming stable soil aggregates, improved soil structure, and active soil biology. Tillage results in an unstable soil state and non-sustainable system by destroying aggregation and soil structure, releasing nutrients, and reducing soil organic matter. By combining the use of no-till and cover crops the steady state condition of a natural system, along with the environmental benefits it provides, can be duplicated. This webinar explores the benefits that increased soil biological activity has on soil organic matter, nutrient cycling, aggregation, and soil structure. The training goes into detail on the linkage between soil organic matter and nitrogen while revealing several key myths concerning use of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers.
This webinar is sponsored by the USDA NRCS East National Technology Support Center.
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