Tag: soil quality

Biography: Martha Mamo holds the John E. Weaver Professorship and currently serves as the Head of the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). Mamo’s research is on nutrient cycling in low input rangeland ecosystem – evaluating grazing strategies and dung pat impact on soil C and N. Mamo provided leadership […]

Elnaz Hosseiniaghdam, doctoral student in the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture at UNL and Arthur W. Sampson Fellow through the Center for Grassland Studies, will be speaking on her research involving evaluating soil responses to mob grazing system on sandhills sub-irrigated meadow and modeling the role of abiotic factors in controlling decomposition.

Gardening For Success Conference, April 14-15, 2018, Laramie County Community College, Pathfinder Building, Cheyenne, Wyoming. The Laramie County Master Gardener and the University of Wyoming, Laramie County Extension office, the State Master Gardener Association and the Wyoming Farmers Market Association are pleased to host a two day multi track specialty crop gardening program to challenge, […]

Exploring principles, techniques and practices at the intersection of farm and human ecosystems that can be applied to improve environmental sustainability, food quality, and overall well-being. Integrating diverse viewpoints, this year’s program engages growers, ranchers and gardeners with principles, practices and innovations for ecologically and financially sound farming, and presents the health-conscious consumer and medical […]

A one day conference, sponsored by the Louisiana Grazing Land Conservation Initiative Coalition. Education for Serious Grazers on September 28, 2017 at the Red River Research Station in Bossier Parish Day 2 / September 29 – Red River Conference for Advanced Livestock Graziers  ( Beyond the basics of Rotational and Intensive Grazing Management, targeted to provide continuing education […]

Pasture/Soil Health Field Day in Greene County, Missouri to discuss soil health on grasslands.  Ways to improve soil health through grazing management, proper stocking rate, understanding the grass plant.  Demonstrations on rainfall simulator and soil infiltration rate.   Workshop Agenda 9:00 Welcome and Introductions – Diana Sheridan, NRCS District Conservationist, Springfield, MO 9:15 Overview of Host […]

Are you healthy? It is easier to identify an unhealthy person or animal than it is to identify one that is healthy. So it is with soil. Who decides what healthy soil is, and how can you tell how healthy your soil is? The definition I use for a healthy agricultural soil is this: a […]