Soils affected by salts can be described in two ways: by salinity classification or by potential crop response (Figure 1). Salinity classifications are based on the total accumulation of salts in the ...

If you take a look at just about any soil survey report or the results of a soil test for nearly any agricultural soil in northeast Colorado, you are likely to find that soils have high calcium ...

FARGO, N.D. -- A new state specialist unveiled North Dakota State University's new Soil Health and Land Management Initiative at the Northern Ag Expo in Fargo, N.D., Nov. 27 and 28. Abbey Wick, an ...

A new publication from University of Wyoming Extension outlines management considerations or remediation needed to support Wyoming range with alkaline soils. The free publication, Alkaline Soils in ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In an incubation study addition of green manure caused a reduction in the ammonia volatilized initially from both sodic and reclaimed soils ...

The availability of Ca from different levels of gypsum and calcium carbonate in a non-saline sodic soil has been investigated. Different levels of tagged gypsum (Ca⁴⁵SO₄. 2H₂O) and calcium carbonate ...

In 1993, ten percent of Uttar Pradesh’s (UP) total cultivable area was plagued by sodic soils. The soil in these areas had such high alkalinity that villagers routinely used it as soap. The dry top ...

Nationwide, nearly 19.43 million hectares of irrigated land are affected, with 1.4 million hectares abandoned altogether due ...