Soil Health Labs Videos

Cover Crops

The Key to Soil Health: Working with the Patterns of Nature

‘Most problems you’re gonna incur with cover crops are spurred by your own actions.’ Hear how Will Metts of Metts Organix avoids them and works with the patterns of nature to grow healthy, sustainable crops!

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What Do First-Time Cover Croppers Get Wrong?

Using cover crops has a bevy of benefits. Among other things, covers help increase infiltration, reduce erosion, improve soil resilience and structure and promote organic matter. But what do first time cover croppers need to know to reap the mo

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Why Make the Change to Regenerative Agriculture

The questions for farmers around the country is getting louder than ever: Conventional or Regenerative? Hear Will Metts of Metts Organix take on why he chose regenerative for the health of the land, himself and his family.

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Transforming Soils with Cover Crops

Two years ago, farmer John Brabham signed up for our 'Cover 5' series, a project where we take five acres of under-performing land and start introducing cover crops. See where he is now!

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Unpacking the 'Haney Test'

In this next series of videos, Buz and Gabe will discuss two different soil tests that are available to measure some of these biological aspects: the Haney Soil Health Test and the PLFA Test.

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Haney Test: Understanding Soil Respiration

In this video, Dr. Buz Kloot unpacks the first part of the Haney Test dealing with CO2C and soil respiration.

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Haney Test: Understanding Organic Matter

In this video, Dr. Buz Kloot unpacks the second part of the Haney Test dealing with organic matter.

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Haney Test: Understanding the H3A Test

In this final video in our series unpacking the Haney Test (an assessment of soil nutrient availability), Dr. Buz Kloot explains what the final component, the 'H3A' Test, is and how it's relevant to farmers and their soils.

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PLFA Test - Part 1

Much like the Haney Test, the P.L.F.A. (Phospholipid Fatty Acid Analysis) isn't always fully understood. What does the analysis have to tell us about our soils and why is it useful? Dr. Buz Kloot and Dr. Gabe Kenne break it all down for us.

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PLFA Test - Part 2

Dr. Buz Kloot and Dr. Gabe Kenne discuss the importance of testing soils at the right time to get the most accurate, consistent readings.

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PLFA Test - Part 3

Dr. Buz Kloot and Dr. Gabe Kenne review soil biomass numbers from a few selected fields across the state of South Carolina. These fields have recently implemented no-till and covers and are beginning to heal, regenerate and return to life!

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PFLA Test - Part 4 - The Results

Dr. Buz Kloot and Dr. Gabe Kenne discuss biomass data and trends in fields with long-term cover crop use vs no cover.

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Introducing Cotton and Covers; The Soil Health Journey of Three Farmers

Farmers practicing soil health say the road to soil health is a journey and not a destination, as you are constantly learning. “Cotton & Covers,” follows the soil health journey of three (3) coastal plain cotton producers.

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Reducing Disturbance

Strip-till and subsoiling are common practices for cotton production in the coastal plain soils of the southeast. Both systems cause soil disturbance and use a lot of fuel.

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Getting Started with Cover Crops

Adding cover crops to a cropping system can increase organic matter, control problem weeds, & help reduce moisture evaporation. How do you get started? In this episode, Zeb Winslow, Sonny Price, Burton Heatwole, & Buz Kloot talk about just that!

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Multispecies Cover Crops

Do multispecies cover crops really make a difference and how can I tell? According to Zeb Winslow of Scotland Neck, North Carolina, Sonny Price of Dillon, South Carolina, and Burton Heatwole of Millen, Georgia, the answer is “yes.”

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Next Level Diversity

Zeb Winslow, Sonny Price, and Burton talk about harvesting sunlight to feed soil biology in their fields, using the 60- to 70-day window of time after corn or wheat harvest to accelerate soil health by producing biomass above the ground.

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Incorporating Livestock

Allowing livestock to graze cover crops is often considered the fifth principle of soil health. While livestock might consume a lot of forage, most of the nutrient content passes through and is deposited back on to the field.

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