Putting Numbers to the Difficult Task of Increasing Soil Organic Matter | Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources | Washington State University

Putting Numbers to the Difficult Task of Increasing Soil Organic Matter

What it takes to increase soil organic matter from 1% to 1.1% in the top 6”.

Building soil organic matter is brutally math-bound: ~90% of biomass decomposes, so gains require huge inputs and low losses.