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  1. Soil Health Assessment

    https://soilhealth.osu.edu/soil-health-assessment

    Although farmers have intuitively understood the importance of soil health for generations, recent ... efforts have focused on how to better measure and quantify soil health. Here we present information on soil ... soil. Learning more about your soil is essential to setting realistic goals for maintaining or improving ...

  2. Biological Activity

    https://soilhealth.osu.edu/soil-health-management/biological-activity

    create biodiversity. A biologically active soil supports natural soil food webs and the interactions that support ... Overview Biologial activity in your soil helps to add organic matter, cycle nutrients, and ... a resilient and healthy soil. Read more:  Understanding Soil Microbes and Nutrient Recycling For increased ...

  3. More Soil Health Resources

    https://soilhealth.osu.edu/resources

    Below are other soil health resources from Ohio State and other regional and national ... organizations of interest.  Ohio State Resources Agronomic Crop Concerns Soil Fertility Lab  ... soilfertility.osu.edu/ Tri-state fertility guidelines, current research on soil organic matter, calcium amendments, and ...

  4. Know Your Plant Requirements

    https://soilhealth.osu.edu/soil-health-assessment/know-your-plant-requirements

    To make the best decisions for planting and soil health management you should be knowledgeable about ... your plant requirements and your soils’ ability to meet those. Urban gardeners can choose species of ...

  5. Home

    https://soilhealth.osu.edu/home

    understand. Cost-Effective. Long term improvements in water management, nutrient cycles, and soil food webs ... Soil Health is… Holistic.  S oil health considers chemical, physical, and biological properties, ... which are interrelated and equally important. Feeding the soil, not the plant. Sustainable agricultural ...

  6. 4-H Youth

    https://soilhealth.osu.edu/4-HYouth

      OSU- 4-H Soils Challenge from Halfletter on Vimeo.     ...

  7. Virginia Dare Scholarship Awarded

    https://fst.osu.edu/news/virginia-dare-scholarship-awarded

    American soil. Virginia Dare is a leader in the manufacture of high quality flavor products for food and ...

  8. Endowed Chairs and Distinguished Professors

    https://fst.osu.edu/research/endowed-chairs

    experience the impact of their support during their lifetimes. In 2010, they documented an estate gift that, ...

  9. Perennial Forages

    https://forages.osu.edu/forage-management/forage-species-varieties/perennial-forages-hay-silage

    the soil and site characteristics, forage species adaptation characteristics, animal requirements, and ...

  10. Short-Season Forages for Summer Planting

    https://forages.osu.edu/news/short-season-forages-summer-planting

    grazing in late autumn. Soil moisture is the big concern for any forage planting now. Much of the state is ... already seeing dry soils and temperatures are high, so the general outlook for seed germination of any ... field, considering soil moisture and the rain forecast. Rainfall/soil moisture in the few weeks ...

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