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Relationships of on‐farm soil health scores with corn and soybean yield in the midwestern United States

Bradley Crookston, Matt Yost, Maria Bowman, Kristen S. Veum

Soil Science Society of America Journal · 2021

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Summary

Abstract Soil health assessments are interpretive frameworks that estimate a soil's health by scoring various soil biological, chemical, and physical attributes to guide soil and crop management. Few large‐scale analyses of soil health assessment scores exist. Thus, our objectives were to (a) summarize soil health scores at farms across much of the midwestern United States, (b) evaluate how individual soil health indicators influence assessment composite scores, (c) assess correlations among composite scores, and (d) determine the strength of significant correlations between soil health assessment scores and crop yield at three spatial and temporal scales: individual site‐year, individual site, and all sites and years combined. Soil health and yield data were collected from 96 Soil Health

Source type
Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.1002/saj2.20355
Catalogue ID
SNmojqlvle-hofjuj
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