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Soil Health Links
Web resources to help you build healthy soil.

USDA-NRCS Soil
Quality Institute -- Good introduction and resources including, The
Soil Biology Primer, Soil Quality
Information Sheets, Soil
Quality Card Design Guide, and Agronomy
Technical Notes Series summaries of the effects of cover crops, rotations
and no-till on soil quality.
Woods End Research Laboratory --
Extensive compost and soil analyses, including an inexpensive
compost maturity and
soil microbial respiration test
kits.
Soil Foodweb Incorporated
-- SFI offers tests for the critical living components of your soil, including
bacterial and fungal biomass, protozoans, nematodes, vessicular-arbuscular
mycorrhize (VAM), and microarthropods. Site includes interesting
articles and an
excellent photo gallery
of soil critters at work. SFI evolved from the pioneering work of soil
ecologist Elaine Ingham at Oregon State University.
Soil Quality
Institute -- USDA-NRCS site, cooperative project focusing on soil
quality resource concerns such as aggregate stability, infiltration, organic
matter loss, nutrient cycling and losses, acidity, salinity, erosion and
deposition. Soil
Quality Information Sheets, provide good introduction to soil health.
Agronomy
Technical Notes Series summaries of the effects of cover crops, rotations
and no-till on soil quality. Both series require Adobe Acrobat reader to view.
(Adobe Acrobat
download site.)
S3 Soil Quality Working
Group -- Soil Science Society of America collaboration.
Soil Quality Network --
International group networking on soil quality research and education.
National Soil Tilth Lab -- USDA facility
that conducts much soil-health related research.
Illinois Soil Quality
Initiative -- Farmers and organizations working together to identify
indices of soil health.
Soil Science Society of America
-- Excellent soil-related links
menu.
National Society of
Consulting Soil Scientists -- Lots of links.
Soil and Water Conservation Society of America
-- Publication order form
includes many soil-health and sustainable-farming related titles. Includes
online version of the Journal of
Soil and Water Conservation.
Science of Soils -- Online
academic journal. Includes
Soils Online
links page.
Soil Health Classics Online Much
theory, practice and inspiration can be gleaned from books and pamphlets first
published decades ago. Some of these hard-to-find works are finding their way
onto the world wide web at the The
Holistic Agriculture Library website:
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