Education

Pictures of some soil quality issues

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  1. Draft Materials for Soil Quality Course - For review by instructors and students
  2. Are you planting weeds? (conventional tillage)

                                              

     

    Source of the soil sample.(1.4 MB)

     

     

    Fight them (annual weeds) on the surface with conservation planting (minimum/no till).(1.4 MB)

     

  3. Packaged in multiple formats (Posters/Movies/text descriptions)

     Comparison of runoff and infiltration using undisturbed samples from fields managed using no-till and conventional tillage systems (154 KB)

    Illustration of the mini lysimeters working (458 KB)

Powerpoint version so you can edit and change the background (11.5 MB)

Ninteen second movie clip-conventional tillage undisturbed soil (no-audio) (176 KB)

  • Erosion and Sediment Control
  • Erosion_and_sediment_control - More posters, pictures, and short movie clips
    1. Filtration experiments

    How to demonstrate filtration using bottles and soil (200 KB)

     

    1. Visual aids and Read Me First - A Guide to the Resource Conservation Kit for Educators (The guide includes background material for visual aids and tells how to make them)

    What is Soil Made Of? (464 KB)  

    Soil compaction (1.9 MB)

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    1. Miscellaneous "Stuff" that is found organized on other pages on this site

      Sample directions on how to use Web Soil Survey (35 KB)

     Web Soil Survey



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