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Understanding pH: Success Stories: Growing Sollutions to Soil pH Challenges

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Farming and ranching involve the fields of biology, ecology, chemistry, botany, physics, geology, meteorology, politics, economics, psychology and mechanics, just to name a few. Cropland was seeded back to grass in 2014, and cattle were grazed during the 2015, 2016 and 2017 seasons. Its much more complex than that.

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Creating Living Landscapes

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For me, well, I was taking an introductory soil science class in a two-year horticulture degree program at Farmingdale State College on Long Island, NY. In that soil science class, I learned all about soil horizons, particle size ranges that comprise sand, loam, and clay, pH, N,P,K, and the fact soil compaction inhibits plant growth.

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Digging Deeper into Disruption

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Our disruptions must be planned and purposeful, built around an understanding as to how they impact the soil resource and its ability to not only recover but to restore vital ecosystem functions, such as the ability to capture and store water from precipitation and cycle nutrients.

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