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A note from the editor Some of the most important details in a soil-health decision live in two places: the research done near you, and the record of what happened in your own field. Neither is always easy to find when a decision is due. Soil Health Exchange helps with the next step — bringing that context to people who can interpret it. This week, we are introducing two projects in the same ecosystem that strengthen the work before a question is answered: OpenAgData for finding place-specific research, and FieldLog for keeping a usable record of the season. Both are working tools, both are still being shaped, and both get better when farmers, agronomists, researchers, and Extension teams tell us where the real friction is. Here is what each is for — and where your feedback would help. |
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Two projects, one field decision Local evidence + a usable field history OpenAgData maps public agricultural research to where it happened, so you can see which practices were tested under comparable soil, climate, crop, and management conditions — and where the evidence is still thin. FieldLog turns a seasonal work plan into a shared field record for tasks, observations, costs, plots, and end-of-season review. Its Ask an Expert connection can send a field question and a snapshot of the relevant record to Soil Health Exchange, then link the published answer back to the farm.
Together they create a better handoff: evidence tied to place, a record tied to the field, and an expert answer that can use both. |
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From the field 
Aragonite Calcium Carbonate: Promising Soil Amendment or Still an Open Research Question?Aragonite calcium carbonate is worth studying, but I would separate the discussion into two parts: what we already know about calcium carbonate/lime materials, and what still need... |
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See you next week. May the notes from this season make the next decision a little easier. — Soil Health Exchange Team |
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