Need help with soil health?
Ag Solutions Network provides guidance, equipment experience and farming know-how with a soil health approach.
We offer crop nutrition including macro, micro and biological products that work with soil biology to improve soil health, crop health, livestock health and human health, while reducing the yield drag seen when making changes to an operation.
Click below to watch experts on our AgEmerge Podcast explain
their work with the five soil health principles and see how
you can get started.
Ag Solutions Network values the importance of putting the
five soil health principles into practice.
Click below to learn more about each principle and implementation.
Cover Crops
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AgEmerge Podcast 094 with Dr. Mahdi Al-Kaisi
AgEmerge Podcast 090 with Dr Allen Williams
AgEmerge Podcast 083 with Paul Greive of Pasturebird
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Soil organic matter
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Soil organic carbon
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Glomalin
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Pore Space
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Aggregate stability
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Water holding capacity
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Soil aeration
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Drainage
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Roots systems
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Plant diversity
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Microbial life (mycorrhizal fungi)
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Cropping systems
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Tillage
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Weather conditions.
FACTORS CONTRIBUTING to SOIL HEALTH and QUALITY
Here’s a great list of factors that take you down the road of soil regeneration, contributing to soil health and quality. Let's improve our soil health systems.
What do healthy soils look like? They are covered with armor, have living roots, have little mechanical or chemical disturbance, and they have crop diversity. Are these factors are present in your fields?
AND DON'T FORGET THE UNINTENDED BENEFITS
Utilize the Power2Gro Crop Production System and reap some of the unintended benefits of a working and healthy soil system.
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Quality, nutrient dense crops.
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Reduced input costs.
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Improved human health opportunities.
SOIL QUALITY SACRIFICED AT THE EXPENSE OF YIELD?
Consider how soils become degraded over the years. Was there one specific practice or management style that led to this destruction?
Consider looking at what has driven production agriculture for so many years. For decades, yield rather than soil quality has been the main goal of farming and ranching operations, but at what cost? And in our defense, the “feed the world” mantra has also played into the whole yield game.
However, the more we’ve learned about our field management the more we’ve learned about soil health and the effect our practices have on soil health. Sadly, we’re burning carbon, eroding soils and destroying soil aggregates while chasing a yield goal.
BUT WHAT IF YOU COULD HAVE BOTH SOIL HEALTH AND GOOD YIELDS?
Utilizing the right products, in the right place at the right time and right rate can be a great place to start. Add in proper no-till or limited till practices, incorporating plant diversity, and maintaining a living root, you’re setting the stage for building soil health and reaching your yield goals.