2020
Quantifying Soil Health in Ohio Soybean Fields
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Contributor/Checkoff:
Ohio Soybean Council
Category:
Sustainable Production
Keywords:
GeneticsGenomicsSeed quality
Parent Project:
This is the first year of this project.
Lead Principal Investigator:
Steve Culman, The Ohio State University
Co-Principal Investigators:
Project Code:
20-R-14
Contributing Organization (Checkoff):
Ohio Soybean Council
$65,000
Institution Funded:
The Ohio State University
$65,000
Brief Project Summary:

Standard soil testing provides a valuable framework for assessing fertility in some fields but may fail to provide the full picture in others. Emerging soil health indicators of active organic matter can provide valuable insight into the biological health of a soil. This research takes advantage of three pre-existing statewide soybean projects that are now complete with archived soils. It measures three key soil health indicators to determine low, medium and high values for three emerging soil health indicators from soils across the state and to determine the role that soil health indicators play in soybean productivity.

Key Benefactors:
farmers, agronomists, extension agents

Information And Results
Project Deliverables

Factsheet and associated video describing distribution of soil health values across Ohio (Objective 1) • Factsheet and associated video describing the relationship of soil health to soybean productivity in Ohio (Objective 2) o Factsheets and videos will be posted on soil fertility website (soilfertility.osu.edu) and youtube channel (go.osu.edu/soilfertility-videos) • Peer-review manuscript(s) demonstrating the relationship of soil health indicators to soybean yields • Printed factsheets and numerous extension talks to explain results and implications of findin

Final Project Results

The United Soybean Research Retention policy will display final reports with the project once completed but working files will be purged after three years. And financial information after seven years. All pertinent information is in the final report or if you want more information, please contact the project lead at your state soybean organization or principal investigator listed on the project.