The following excerpt comes from an article written by Dr. Eric Brevik, professor of geology and soils at Dickinson State University (DSU), and published in the November 2019 edition of ND EPSCoR’s News & Notes.
In a recent grant round, Dickinson State University received a ND EPSCoR equipment award that allowed our department to purchase a specialized piece of equipment. As a soil scientist, my ND EPSCoR sponsored research has been to look at how soil properties change with changes in soil management. Our research compares the soil properties of land in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) with land that has been taken out of CRP and put into no-till production or no-till production that is also used as winter forage for cattle. Up until now, we’ve taken the soil samples twice a year by hand: from the surface to one meter deep at 30 sites, totaling 300 samples per year. That’s a lot of digging!
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