The Soil Health Cycle with Dr. Bijesh Maharjan

“Soil Health Cycle” with Dr. Bijesh Maharjan

Researchers, advisers, and farmers alike know that soil health is important, but taking steps forward in the knowledge of which practices to use and their impacts can be difficult. Enter the soil health cycle, an iterative approach to help track how practices and their implementation take soil health forward. In this episode, Bijesh joins me to discuss his work on the soil health cycle.

Tune in to learn:

·         How the soil health cycle is similar to human health care cycles

·         What the four steps of the soil health cycle are

·         Why it’s important to have a soil health cycle

·         What the literature says about the current state of the soil health cycle

If you would like more information about this topic, this episode’s paper is available here: https://doi.org/10.1002/agg2.20504

This paper is always freely available.

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If you would like to reach out to Bijesh, you can find him here: maharjan@unl.edu https://x.com/Nebraska_soils

Resources

CEU Quiz: https://web.sciencesocieties.org/Learning-Center/Courses/Course-Detail?productid=%7b3687C77E-BE1E-F011-998A-0022480989AC%7d 

Transcripts: https://www.rev.com/app/transcript/NjgwMDExNTJlZGVmODgyNjliNWNhMmQzbEVZNXpiYV8xWGtU/o/VEMwOTY5NDE4NDEw

Supracentennial special section call for papers for Soil Science Society of America Journal: https://acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14350661/specialsectioncall#supracentennial-field-experiments

Maharjan Lab: www.maharjanlab.com

Thank you to our volunteer Om Prakash Ghimire for help with other assets. Thank you to Cole Shalk from 12twelve Media for the Audio Processing on today's episode.

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