Soil Quality Outreach

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Soil Quality Outreach

• Lesson 8

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Objectives

• Describe sources of available soil quality
  information.
• Describe ways in which soil quality information
  can be disseminated to our customers.

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Sources of Information

• Soil Quality Institute Products
• State of the Land Publications
• Books and Journals
• Research and Extension Publications
• Internet

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Soil Quality Test kit Guide

• Test procedures
• Interpretation information
• MS Excel spreadsheets available for data entry
  and calculations
• 82 pages

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Soil Quality Card Design Guide

• How to develop soil quality cards with local
  farmers
• Focus group and consensus building techniques
• 115 pages

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Soil Biology Primer

• Soil Food Web and Soil Health,
• Bacteria,
• Fungi,
• Protozoa,
• Nematodes,
• Arthropods,
• Earthworms

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Soil Quality-Soil Biology Technical Note

• Erosion and Sedimentation on Construction Sites
• Urban Soil Compaction
• Heavy Metal Soil Contamination

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Soil Quality-Urban Tech Notes

• Erosion and Sedimentation on Construction Sites
• Urban Soil Compaction
• Heavy Metal Soil Contamination

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Soil Quality-Agronomy Tech Notes

• Cover and Green Manure Crop Benefits to Soil
  Quality
• Conservation Crop Rotation Effects on Soil
  Quality
• Effects of Residue Management, No-till on Soil
  Quality
• Effect of Soil Quality on Nutrient Efficiency
• Herbicides
• Legumes and Soil Quality
• Effects of Erosion on Soil Productivity Soil
  Quality

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Soil Quality-Agronomy Tech Notes

• Liming to Improve Soil Quality in Acid Soils
• Managing Conservation Tillage
• Sunn Hemp A Cover Crop for Southern and Tropical
  Farming Systems
• Agricultural Management Effects on Earthworm
  Populations
• Long-Term Agricultural Management Effects on Soil
  Carbon

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Soil Quality-Agronomy Tech Notes

• The Knife Roller (Crimper) An Alternative Kill
  Method for Cover Crops
• Improving Soil Quality on the Southern Coastal
  Plain-One Farmers Experience
• Soil Quality and Vegetable Production-One
  Farmers Experience

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Soil Quality-Agronomy Tech Notes

• Interpreting the Soil Conditioning Index A tool
  for measuring soil organic matter trends
• Soil Compaction Detection, prevention
  alleviation
• Sod-based Rotations A proven old practice to
  improve soil productivity

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Other SQ Institute Publications

• The Soil Quality Concept Book (1996)
• Introduction to Microbiotic Crusts (1997)
• Phosphorous in Agriculture (pamphlet)
• Crop Residue Removal
  for Biomass Energy
  Production (2003)

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Soil Quality Information Sheets

• Soil Quality - Introduction (April 1996)
• Indicators for Soil Quality Evaluation (April
  1996)
• Organic Matter (April 1996)
• Soil Crusts (April 1996)
• Aggregate Stability (April 1996)
• pH (May 1998)
• Infiltration (May 1998)

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Soil Quality Information Sheets

• Soil Quality Resource Concerns
• Soil Erosion (April 1996)
• Sediment Deposition on Cropland (April 1996)
• Compaction (April 1996)
• Salinization (May 1998)
• Pesticides (May 1998)
• Available Water Capacity (May 1998)
• Soil Biodiversity (May 1998)
• Hydrophobicity (June 2000)

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Rangeland Soil Quality Information Sheets

• Introduction
• Indicators
• Organic Matter
• Soil Biota
• Infiltration
• Compaction

• Water erosion
• Wind erosion
• Physical And Biological Crusts
• Aggregate Stability

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Soil Quality Thunderbook

• (Newly revised April 2004)
• Do you need help organizing your soil quality
  information?

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Guidelines for Soil Quality Assessment in
Conservation Planning

• Incorporates soil quality assessment into the 9
  steps of conservation planning.

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2001 Soil Planning Guide
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State of The Land Publications

• A Geography of Hope

Soil Erosion as a Proportion of the tolerable
rate (T), 1992
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State Newsletters

• NC Soil Quality Team Newsletter

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Books on Soil Quality

• Defining Soil Quality for a Sustainable
  Environment (1994)
• Editors are J.W. Doran, D.C. Coleman, D.F.
  Bezdicek, and B.A. Stewart

• Methods for Assessing Soil Quality (1996)
• Editors are J.W. Doran and A.J. Jones

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Books on Soil Quality

• Soil Quality for crop production and ecosystem
  health (1997)
• Editors are E.G. Gredorich and M.R. Carter

• Soil Quality and Soil Erosion (1999)
• Editor is R. Lal

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Soil Management

• Best management practices
• Canadian
• 1997
• ISBN 0-778-2686

• Managing Soil Quality

• Management approaches to soil quality
  International authorship
• 2003
• ISBN 085199671X

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Soil Quality and Biology

• Biological Indicators of Soil Health (1997)
• Editors are C. Pankhurst, B.M. Doube, and
  V.V.S.R. Gupta

• Soil Biology Effects on Soil Quality(1994)
• Editors are J.L. Hatfield and B.A. Stewart

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Soil Quality and Organic Matter

• Building Soils for Better Crops, 2nd Ed. (2000)
• Authors are Fred Magdoff and Harold van Es

• Stubble Over the Soil the vital role of plant
  residue in soil management to improve soil
  quality (1996)
• Author is Carlos Crovetto Lamarca

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Sources on Enhancement of Earthworms

• Biology and Ecology of Earthworms (3rd ed.),
• Edwards and Bohlen, Chapman and Hall, 1996
• Biology of Earthworms
• Edwards and Lofty, Chapman and Hall, 1977.
• Earthworms and Crop Management
• Eileen Kladivko, Purdue Univ. Cooperative
  Extension Service, 1993.

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Sources on Enhancement of Earthworms

• Earthworm Ecology and Biogeography in North
  America,
• P.F. Hendrix, 1995, Lewis Publishers.
• Earthworms, Their Ecology and relationships with
  soils and land use,
• K.E. Lee, Academic Press, 1985.
• The Farmers Earthworm Handbook,
• Ernst, Lessiter Publications, 1995.

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Internet - Soil Quality

• Illinois Soil Quality Initiative
  http//www.aces.uiuc.edu/asap/resources/isqi/isqi
  .html
• Soil Quality Institute
• http//soils.usda.gov/sqi
• World Wide Links to Soil Quality
  http//www.sarep.ucdavis.edu/soil/websites.htm
• Soil Quality Website temporary server
  http//csltest.ait.iastate.edu/SoilQualityWebsite/
  home.htm

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Internet - No Tillage

• No-till Farmer http//www.lesspub.com/ntf/
• Steve Groff (Cedar Meadow Farms)
  http//www.cedarmeadowfarm.com/
• Dakota Lakes Research Farm http//www.dakotalakes.
  com/

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Internet - Sustainable Agriculture

• Sustainable Farming Connection http//www.ibiblio.
  org/farming-connection/index.html
• Sustainable Vegetable Production in the South
  http//www.cals.ncsu.edu/sustainable/peet/
• Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas
  (ATTRA) http//www.attra.org/index.html
• Sustainable Agriculture Research Education
  http//www.sare.org - SANET Listserv

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Internet - Organizations

• ARS Research Locations
  http//www.ars-grin.gov/ars/res.html
• National Assc. Of Conservation Districts (NACD)
  http//www.nacdnet.org/pubaff/backyard.htm
• Conservation Technology Information Center (CTIC)
  http//www.ctic.purdue.edu/CTI
  C/CTIC.html
• International Erosion Control Association
  http//ieca.org/

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Opportunities to Disseminate Soil Quality
Information

• Field office assistance
• Field days and workshops
• FFA Programs
• Environmental Education Days
• Ag in the classroom
• Limited Resource Farmers
• K-12
• Envirothon, etc.

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Field Days
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Field Days
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Field Days
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Workshops
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Demonstrations
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Classroom Training
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Focus Groups and Study Circles
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News Articles
Conservation Voices
New Farm Magazine
CTIC - Age Tech Notes
ND Water Magazine
Leopold Letter
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FFA/4H
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Environmental Education Days
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K-12
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Instructor Notes

• Give post-test
• Review post-test answers
• Course evaluation
• Instructor evaluations
• Handout course certificates