Poor soils lose carbon regardless of crop residue and nitrogen inputs, shows study

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May 15, 2023, 7:53 pm143 pts
Let's say you're a corn grower farming on low-fertility soil. How do you go about making that soil healthier and more fertile? Many farmers think if they add plenty of nitrogen fertilizer, that nutrient, along with carbon, will be stored in the soil as organic matter when microbes decompose crop residue. But…

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