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Ensuring Garbage In, Good Food Out

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In sustainable and organic agriculture, farmers typically add carbon-rich soil amendments to boost nitrogen and to maintain organic matter levels. These amendments -- manure and decaying plants -- undergo fairly rapid decomposition as soil microbes get to work. Tsutomu Ohno, an associate professor of soil chemistry at the University of Maine in Orono, said that changes to the amendments and the dissolved organic matter they release are important. “This is what we are interested in, since the changes can alter reactivity to soil surfaces and dissolved ions in soil solution,” he...Read full article

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    Published: May 2007
    Basic Sciencecontrolled decompositionFeaturesorganic agriculturespectroscopyUniversity of Maine in Orono

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