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The United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service (https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/site/national/home/) has created a series of short videos about the science of soil health. These videos are shown below.
Farmers need to understand some soil biology so that they understand how their soil works, and why some traditional farming systems, such as ploughing (tilling) and using chemical fertilisers, herbicides, and pesticides, are not in their financial interests; and why they should be replaced by conservation agriculture techniques, such as cover cropping, intercropping, and mulching.
90% of soil functions are carried out by soil micro-organisms, such as bacteria, fungi, protozoa, nematodes, and micro-arthropods. Because farmers often do not know about the soil micro-organisms, they unintentionally and unknowingly destroy the very source of their potential wealth. The knowledge in these videos will enable farmers to understand the roles of the various soil micro-organisms, and how by taking care of the micro-organisms, they can increase their crop yields; prevent flooding in their fields when it rains; eradicate soil compaction; prevent crop disease and pest attacks; etc.
1. The Science of Soil Health: Introduction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHOF6NfLm7M&list=PL4J8PxoprpGa3wFYSXFu-BW_mMatleIt0&index=1
2. The Science of Soil Health: Getting a Handle on Mineralizable Nitrogen in Soils
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB1nmzGt_u8&list=PL4J8PxoprpGa3wFYSXFu-BW_mMatleIt0&index=2
3. The Science of Soil Health: Changing The Way We Think About Soil Microbes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyKfpOso8q8&list=PL4J8PxoprpGa3wFYSXFu-BW_mMatleIt0&index=3
4. The Science of Soil Health: What Happens When You Till?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Azb0So8M50Q&index=4&list=PL4J8PxoprpGa3wFYSXFu-BW_mMatleIt0
5. The Science of Soil Health: Cover Crops and Moisture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohX1jIlH_kI&index=5&list=PL4J8PxoprpGa3wFYSXFu-BW_mMatleIt0
6. The Science of Soil Health: Simulating Rainfall on Pastures
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dL_79O8OiQ&list=PL4J8PxoprpGa3wFYSXFu-BW_mMatleIt0&index=6
7. The Science of Soil Health: Understanding the Value of Legumes and Nitrogen-Fixing Microbes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yRYdvEzXag&list=PL4J8PxoprpGa3wFYSXFu-BW_mMatleIt0&index=7
8. The Science of Soil Health: Using Cover Crops to Soak up Nutrients for the Next Crop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVf2yF19tx8&index=8&list=PL4J8PxoprpGa3wFYSXFu-BW_mMatleIt0
9. The Science of Soil Health: Compaction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTUVRieYoZ8&index=9&list=PL4J8PxoprpGa3wFYSXFu-BW_mMatleIt0
10. The Science of Soil Health: Night Crawlers and Soil Water Flow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcpXeSRGdXA&list=PL4J8PxoprpGa3wFYSXFu-BW_mMatleIt0&index=10
11. The Science of Soil Health: Soil Feeds Plants, and Vice Versa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgy9ArBpNiI&index=11&list=PL4J8PxoprpGa3wFYSXFu-BW_mMatleIt0
12. The Science of Soil Health: Fighting Plant Disease with Microbes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjgeBzKLR1I&list=PL4J8PxoprpGa3wFYSXFu-BW_mMatleIt0&index=12
13. The Science of Soil Health: Without Carrot or Stick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjd0NQ6Hc88&index=13&list=PL4J8PxoprpGa3wFYSXFu-BW_mMatleIt0
14. The Science of Soil Health: The Weil Brassica Research Team
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o66y9FbiC4k&index=14&list=PL4J8PxoprpGa3wFYSXFu-BW_mMatleIt0
15. The Science of Soil Health: Precision Cover Cropping
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06N63U-RAl0&index=15&list=PL4J8PxoprpGa3wFYSXFu-BW_mMatleIt0
16. The Science of Soil Health: Dynamic Cropping Systems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvScUApslps&index=16&list=PL4J8PxoprpGa3wFYSXFu-BW_mMatleIt0
17. The Science of Soil Health: Systems in Agroecology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpMr1-STc38&index=17&list=PL4J8PxoprpGa3wFYSXFu-BW_mMatleIt0
18. The Science of Soil Health: Natural Systems and Weeds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDLkAUYRAnI&index=18&list=PL4J8PxoprpGa3wFYSXFu-BW_mMatleIt0
19. The Science of Soil Health: A Short Field Trip with Dr. Beck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wSC7arMY9M&list=PL4J8PxoprpGa3wFYSXFu-BW_mMatleIt0&index=19
20. The Science of Soil Health: Using Insects to Manage Pests
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPWMxCeAHSw&index=20&list=PL4J8PxoprpGa3wFYSXFu-BW_mMatleIt0
21. The Science of Soil Health: Mimicking Nature in the Lab
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx1qK5sPgTM&index=21&list=PL4J8PxoprpGa3wFYSXFu-BW_mMatleIt0
22. Researcher’s “soil trek” concludes in final season of The Science of Soil Health
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alqdwPixcUQ&index=22&list=PL4J8PxoprpGa3wFYSXFu-BW_mMatleIt0
23. The Science of Soil Health: Cycle, Re-cycle, Repeat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f1NNbi3JsY&index=23&list=PL4J8PxoprpGa3wFYSXFu-BW_mMatleIt0
24. The Science of Soil Health: Nature’s Way of Extracting Minerals from Soil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7id24FKSqWs&list=PL4J8PxoprpGa3wFYSXFu-BW_mMatleIt0&index=24
25. The Science of Soil Health: Going Deeper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzfFFNG5mnQ&list=PL4J8PxoprpGa3wFYSXFu-BW_mMatleIt0&index=25
26. The Science of Soil Health: Going Deeper, Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo6zvBBROL0&index=26&list=PL4J8PxoprpGa3wFYSXFu-BW_mMatleIt0
27. The Science of Soil Health: Dynamic Soil Properties
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZLde2famp8&list=PL4J8PxoprpGa3wFYSXFu-BW_mMatleIt0&index=27
28. The Science of Soil Health: Finale, Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJdh5Mcg5_E&index=28&list=PL4J8PxoprpGa3wFYSXFu-BW_mMatleIt0
29. Chapter 1 – Bringing the Science of Soil Health Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGxr9N7FjkQ&list=PL4J8PxoprpGa3wFYSXFu-BW_mMatleIt0&index=29
30. Chapter 2 – Understanding the Basics: Buz’s ‘Fab-Five Facts of Healthy Soil’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BTW28oeKJw&list=PL4J8PxoprpGa3wFYSXFu-BW_mMatleIt0&index=30
31. Chapter 3 – Minimize Disturbance, or “Do Not Disturb!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD5iSEn3U88&list=PL4J8PxoprpGa3wFYSXFu-BW_mMatleIt0&index=31
32. Chapter 4 – The Great Cover Up: How Nature Protects and Enriches the Soil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxZiLkgUYAM&list=PL4J8PxoprpGa3wFYSXFu-BW_mMatleIt0&index=32
33. Chapter 5 – Keep a Live Root in the Soil, or “A Radicle Idea”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qodG4MJeQvQ&index=33&list=PL4J8PxoprpGa3wFYSXFu-BW_mMatleIt0
34. Chapter 6 – Mix it Up! Managing for Diversity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxRzyoA5UR0&list=PL4J8PxoprpGa3wFYSXFu-BW_mMatleIt0&index=34