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As with nitrogen, following the energy through an ecosystem reveals to us how that ecosystem works. Here, I… Visit The Pyramid Scheme of High Organic Amendment Rates The Pyramid Scheme of High Organic Amendment Rates Posted by Andrew McGuire | May 14, 2024 There are many soil health benefits of applying high rates of organic amendments. For example, a recent meta-analysis found adding organic amendments increased soil organic… Visit Nitrogen Fertilizer and Soil Organic Matter: What Does the Evidence Say? Nitrogen Fertilizer and Soil Organic Matter: What Does the Evidence Say? Posted by Andrew McGuire | December 5, 2023 Does synthetic nitrogen fertilizer burn up soil organic matter? 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Visit Follow the Energy: How Cropping Systems Fundamentally Differ From Natural Systems Follow the Energy: How Cropping Systems Fundamentally Differ From Natural Systems Posted by Andrew McGuire | June 25, 2024 Energy flow drives everything in an ecosystem. As with nitrogen, following the energy through an ecosystem reveals to us how that ecosystem works. Here, I…
Visit The Pyramid Scheme of High Organic Amendment Rates The Pyramid Scheme of High Organic Amendment Rates Posted by Andrew McGuire | May 14, 2024 There are many soil health benefits of applying high rates of organic amendments. For example, a recent meta-analysis found adding organic amendments increased soil organic…
Visit Nitrogen Fertilizer and Soil Organic Matter: What Does the Evidence Say? Nitrogen Fertilizer and Soil Organic Matter: What Does the Evidence Say? Posted by Andrew McGuire | December 5, 2023 Does synthetic nitrogen fertilizer burn up soil organic matter? Whether you are focused on soil health, soil sequestration, or soil carbon credits, this is an…
Visit Putting Numbers to the Difficult Task of Increasing Soil Organic Matter Putting Numbers to the Difficult Task of Increasing Soil Organic Matter Posted by Andrew McGuire | November 7, 2023 You may know that it is difficult to increase soil organic matter, but how difficult is it, with numbers? First, your crop harvest removes up…
Visit What’s so Good about Biodiversity in Crop Production? What’s so Good about Biodiversity in Crop Production? Posted by Andrew McGuire | October 10, 2023 In a 2012 book, Donald Maier asked, “What’s so good about biodiversity?” He describes how difficult it is to critique principles of biodiversity because all…
Visit Sagebrush Shrub-steppe or Cheatgrass Prairie? Sagebrush Shrub-steppe or Cheatgrass Prairie? Posted by Andrew McGuire | September 5, 2023 Although I work in irrigated agriculture, the views on my morning commute are all sagebrush, or the shrub-steppe as this native plant community is called.…
Visit Meeting Food Demand through Agronomic Engineering and Incremental Transformation Meeting Food Demand through Agronomic Engineering and Incremental Transformation Posted by Andrew McGuire | August 9, 2023 In a realistic scenario, where not everyone gives up eating meat, where some in the developing world eat more like us, and where food waste…
Visit The Benefits of a Reductionist Approach The Benefits of a Reductionist Approach Posted by Andrew McGuire | July 25, 2023 I have been called a reductionist quite a few times. I never know how to respond. Am I a reductionist? If so, is that a…
Visit Water Use Limitations of Cover Crops in Dryland Cropping Water Use Limitations of Cover Crops in Dryland Cropping Posted by Andrew McGuire | April 4, 2023 I have seen it work. As a graduate student, I researched cover crops in a California dryland wheat system, comparing a wheat-fallow system to one…
Visit Potato Cropping Systems to Manage Soilborne Disease Potato Cropping Systems to Manage Soilborne Disease Posted by Andrew McGuire | February 7, 2023 Long-term cropping systems research is expensive, difficult to manage, and therefore rare, especially for vegetable crops. So when results are published for potato cropping systems,…