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Nutrient deficiencies and their symptoms

Cropaia

However, over time, the lack of essential nutrients can impact crop yield and quality, even without apparent symptoms. To address hidden nutrient deficiencies and prevent more severe imbalances, regular soil testing and plant tissue analysis are crucial. What causes nutrient deficiencies?

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Soil organisms – promoting soil health

Cropaia

Improving Soil Structure Organisms play a critical role in improving soil structure, both by breaking compacted soil and by stabilizing soil aggregates. Soil compaction reduces the pore space between soil particles, impeding the movement of water, air, and roots through the soil.

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To Reverse a Troubling Trend, Farmers Are Adding Rocks to Their Fields

Modern Farmer

Over the years, this has caused pH levels to drop to 5 and below, according to Dr. Francisco Calderon, director of the Columbia Basin Agricultural Research Center. A few weeks after the ag show, Rauch got the latest results of his soil pH tests: 5.3. Chris Rauch’s son Andre pulls soil samples from their dryland wheat farm. “But