Soil your...what!

Title
Soil your...what!
Publication Date
2018
Author(s)
Knox, Oliver
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0414-5771
Email: oknox@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:oknox
Dickinson, Sally
Jenson, Melanie
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC)
Place of publication
Australia
UNE publication id
une:23540
Abstract
All in the name of good soil health, the fun soil science experiment is being run by CottonInfo to raise awareness of soil health, and allow people to easily see how healthy their soil is. CotttonInfo REO Sally Dickinson says it's easy to participate: just bury a pair of white, 100 percent cotton undies in topsoil for two months and then check the level of decomposition. Local REOs will supply the undies, and after two months it's then time to share these experiences with local CottonInfo REOs and the Twitter community using the hashtag #soilyourundies. With proper management, the ground beneath crops should teem with millions of tiny lifeforms including bacteria, fungi, protozoa, nematodes, arthropods and earthworms - all busy transferring nutrients, eating and decomposing organic material through nutrient cycling in processes that help plants thrive. If there's not much left of the undies after a couple of months, this indicates good biological activity, which indicates healthy soil, as the soil organisms breaking down the processed cotton break down plant materials in much the same way.
Link
Citation
Spotlight, v.winter, p. 29
ISSN
1448-4838
Start page
29

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