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Soil at risk: Senate report outlines 25 recommendations for preserving Canada’s soil

Real Agriculture

. “Critical Ground: Why Soil is Essential to Canada’s Economic, Environmental, Human, and Social Health” combines information from over 150 witnesses, 60 written briefs, and supporting documents from soil science researchers, agronomists, farmers, ranchers, foresters, environmental organizations, agri-businesses, industry.

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USDA 1890 National Scholar Connects Field Work with Academics

USDA Blog

Jordyn Ash, a sophomore at Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University (FAMU) in Tallahassee, is a USDA 1890 National Scholar studying plant and soil sciences. Ash applied to the USDA 1890 National Scholars Program during her senior year of high school.

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USDA 1890 National Scholar Program Internships Helped Refine Goals

USDA Blog

She eventually got her degree in agriculture from Prairie View A&M University with a concentration in plant and soil science. With that seed of interest planted, she took agriculture classes throughout high school, grew and maintained her garden, showed livestock, and cross-bred tomatoes.

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Craig Kvien named APRES Fellow

Western FarmPress

The American Peanut Research and Education Society presents retired University of Georgia professor of crop physiology, crop and soil sciences with the organization's highest award.

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A world farm, illustrated

Agricultural Biodiversity

Benjamin Nowak, a “French lecturer in agronomy with teaching and research activities focused on soil sciences and remote sensing for crop monitoring” has a nice infographic showing “ what a large farm would look like, growing all the world’s crops.” ” Pretty cool. But where’s all the ganja?

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Pivot Bio Presents Abstracts on Breakthrough Technology at Research Conference

Agwired

Sustainable agriculture company Pivot Bio presented abstracts on its breakthrough crop nutrition technologies at the 2023 International Annual Meeting of the American Society of Agronomy (ASA), the Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), and the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA).

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World Soil Day: Understanding the interactions beneath our feet

Real Agriculture

December 5, the international day to celebrate soil, was first recommended by the International Union of Soil Sciences in 2002. This year, the theme is ‘Caring for soils: measure, monitor, manage.’