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Next up in our chat with soil health expert, Bernier Coto, is all about how microbial activity helps plants resist pathogen infection. If you remember from last week, the roots are the neurobiology of the plant. Plants have a direct relationship with the microbiology that exists in their environment and in the soil ...
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Welcome to our Ask an Expert Series. This week we chat with soil health expert , Bernier Coto, about the role of microbial communities in cultivating healthy and sustainable soils. Bernier Coto is an Agricultural Engineer who graduated from the Technological Institute of Costa Rica and has a Masters in Agribusiness Management ...
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Vibrant populations of soil fauna are a critical component of a healthy, productive soil. You can’t really have one without the other. Earthworms are an easy and obvious sign of good soil health – lots of earthworms = healthy soil = good productivity. Simple. When we talk about soil biology, though, there ...
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What is Alkaline Soil? pH is the base 10 logarithmic scale used to measure the concentration of hydrogen ions. When a soils pH is above 7 it is termed to be alkaline. A soil with a pH of 8 would be ten times more alkaline than a pH of 7. Significant differences ...
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Bringing Lanzones Back Into a Fruiting Cycle Bio-Agritech Inc. is a progressive Agro-technology company based in the Philippines. They maintain a holistic and organic approach to farming and aim to improve soil conditions to help to resuscitate their decimated Lanzones fruit tree plantations. ...
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