This year, the American Farmland Trust completed a series of Resilience Reports focusing on the impact of climate change on soil health management systems in various regions, including western New York.
The Cornell Small Farms Program’s Urban Ag project has partnered with USDA-AMS Marketing Services Division and Rooted, the Madison, WI-based center for urban agriculture enterprise and education, to collaborate and develop classes for commercial urban agriculturists, city planners, and policymakers.
The study found that sawdust controlled weeds well in soybean fields but not as well in corn fields. Sawdust offers an eco-friendly alternative to conventional methods for controlling weeds, such as tilling and herbicides, each of which have their own downsides.
Read about recent soil health workshops, Penn State on cereal rye termination, Podcast on how climate change is affecting farmers, Story on the fascinating world of soil bioacoustics, Story on Groton dairy farmer Eric Carey
In case you missed some recent soil health news and research items for New York and beyond!
It’s official: 158 soil health practitioners earned their Cornell University Advanced Soil Health certificate. Another 50 participated in the course informally.
This first group to earn their certificate represents an amazing international cohort from over 30 countries. They fill a wide range of roles from agronomists to graduate students to urban farmers.