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New podcast episode: The soil health cycle

April 21, 2025
New Field, Lab, Earth podcast episode: Dr. Bijesh Maharjan joins us to discuss the steps in and importance of the soil health cycle.

Researchers, advisers, and farmers alike know that soil health is important, but taking steps forward in the knowledge of which practices to use and their impacts can be difficult. Enter the soil health cycle, an iterative approach to help track how practices and their implementation take soil health forward. 

In this episode, Dr. Bijesh Maharjan from the University of Nebraska joins the Field, Lab, Earth podcast to discuss his work on the soil health cycle.

Tune in to learn:

  • How the soil health cycle is similar to human health care cycles

  • What the four steps of the soil health cycle are

  • Why it’s important to have a soil health cycle

  • What the literature says about the current state of the soil health cycle

If you would like more information about this topic, this episode’s paper is available here: https://doi.org/10.1002/agg2.20504.


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