The State of the World's Arable Land

L Olsson, F Cotrufo, T Crews, J Franklin… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
For millennia, agriculture has been sha** landscapes on Earth. Technological change
has increased agricultural productivity dramatically, especially in the past six decades, but …

[HTML][HTML] Soil Science-Informed Machine Learning

B Minasny, T Bandai, TA Ghezzehei, YC Huang, Y Ma… - Geoderma, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Machine learning (ML) applications in soil science have significantly increased over
the past two decades, reflecting a growing trend towards data-driven research addressing …

[HTML][HTML] A minimum suite of soil health indicators for North American agriculture

DK Bagnall, EL Rieke, CLS Morgan, DL Liptzin… - Soil Security, 2023 - Elsevier
The concept of soil health is appropriately receiving increased attention from governments,
producers, corporations, and other stakeholders because of the many functions of soil that …

Evaluation of aggregate stability methods for soil health

EL Rieke, DK Bagnall, CLS Morgan, KD Flynn… - Geoderma, 2022 - Elsevier
Aggregate stability is a commonly used indicator of soil health because improvements in
aggregate stability are related to reduced erodibility and improved soil–water dynamics …

Strategies to improve soil health by optimizing the plant–soil–microbe–anthropogenic activity nexus

L Wang, P Lu, S Feng, C Hamel, D Sun… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Since the Green Revolution, world agriculture has relied heavily on agrochemical
inputs (synthetic fertilizers and pesticides) in cereal-and oilseed-dominated monoculture …

Selecting soil hydraulic properties as indicators of soil health: Measurement response to management and site characteristics

DK Bagnall, CLS Morgan, GM Bean… - Soil Science Society …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Farmers, scientists, and other soil health stakeholders require interpretable indicators of soil
hydraulic function. Determining which indicators to use has been difficult because of …

[HTML][HTML] Improving coarse-textured mineral soils with pulp and paper mill sludges: Functional considerations at laboratory scale

M Räty, M Termonen, H Soinne, J Nikama, K Rasa… - Geoderma, 2023 - Elsevier
Building up the organic matter content of coarse-textured soils with organic amendments
seeks to ameliorate the productivity of these soils, which is limited by plant available water …

Soil properties affect crop yield changes under conservation agriculture: A systematic analysis

X Ren, W Zou, J Jiao, R Stewart… - European Journal of Soil …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Conservation agriculture (CA) has the potential to sustain soil productivity and benefit
agroecosystems, yet it is not fully understood how yield responses of different crop** …

Cover crops and deep‐soil C accumulation: What does research show after 10 years?

H Blanco‐Canqui, P Jasa… - Soil Science Society …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The extent to which cover crops (CCs) accumulate soil organic carbon (SOC) in the entire
soil profile is still unclear. We measured SOC, permanganate oxidizable C (POX‐C), and …

Assessing the watershed-scale effects of tillage management on surface runoff and sediment loss using a Curve Number-precipitation relationship based approach

S Samanta, S Ale, DK Bagnall, CLS Morgan - Journal of Hydrology, 2023 - Elsevier
Poor soil management limits the soil functions of water infiltration and storage and enhances
water and soil losses. Adoption of improved soil management practices is thus vital to …