Kiss Your Soil

We are wrapping up our series on Soil Carbon. We hope you found some of the information useful. We will leave you with a short video from the folks at Kiss The Ground. This short three and a half minute video does a pretty…

CO2 – H20 & Climate Change

Are you worried about climate change? Have you considered healing the patch of soil you control to help mitigate our earth’s natural processes? When we started this series of posts on soil carbon we looked at how carbon flows through air, plants, animals, soil…

How To Measure Soil Carbon

Measuring carbon in the atmosphere for the Northern Hemisphere is tracked by sensors (some developed by Lincoln Nebraska’s LI-COR Biosciences) at the Mauna Loa, Hawaii monitoring location. Atmospheric carbon data is updated on a regular basis and available for use by anyone. Unfortunately there…

Managing Soil Carbon

In a previous post we discussed soil organic matter and the storage of carbon in soil. The key point, plants in association with soil biology create a super highway moving carbon from the atmosphere into soil. This super highway is known as the liquid…

Soil Organic Matter (SOM)

Soil organic matter makes up a small part of all soils. In this area of Nebraska, cropland fields will average around 3% organic matter. SOM is a small but powerful part of any soil. SOM can be thought of as the Soil Bank where…