Jodi DeJong-Hughes, a soil health and tillage educator with the University of Minnesota, says it's important to build up carbon organic matter in fields to maintain healthy, sustainable soils.
Growers have believed that crops will get the carbon dioxide they need from the surrounding air, but environmental scientist and Woods End Soil Lab founder Will Brinton says that's no longer the case.
There has been a great deal of interest in recent months in the idea of using nitrogen fertilizer during the growing season to increase soybean yields.
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