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Grass in livestock systems
Grass is the main plant type used for forage, which are often combined with legumes for added nutrition and other valuable…
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Soils form over thousands of years through local interactions of climate, geology, hydrology and management. Physical and chemical alteration (…
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Topsoil structure
A well-structured topsoil has small, rounded aggregates and a range of pore shapes and sizes that form a continuous network. This…
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Protecting soil health is critical to environmental sustainability, as soils:
• Exchange gases, such as carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxides, with the…
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Crops and other plants are the ultimate source of soil OM either through direct deposition of roots and other organs into the soil, or by recycling…
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Soil fungi
A teaspoon of soil can contain around one million fungi. Some of these are parasitic and detrimental to plants, but some are mutualistic…
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Field drainage is installed to rapidly remove excess soil water to reduce or eliminate waterlogging and return soils to their natural field capacity…
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Earthworm functions
The activity and behaviour of earthworms is beneficial for the provision of many soil ecosystem services, including:
Enhanced…