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Soil quality monitoring for sustainable agriculture
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Most farmers are highly conscious of the importance of sustainable land management.However, the economics of present day agriculture place ever increasing pressure on farmers to intensify land-use, often exceeding the margins of what is truly sustainable.As a result, farmers increasingly demand more information and better tools for monitoring the sustainability of their agricultural management.This paper describes work in progress.It is our intent to present an overview of our research and development of a Soil Quality Monitoring System (SQMS).The SQMS is designed as an on-farm tool for monitoring and interpreting changes in soil quality that reflect on the sustainability of agricultural management practices.The paper focuses on the philosophical and theoretical basis of our research, the specific approach we have taken and some future prospects for the SQMS.
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Approaches targeting farmers and stressing the educational aspect benefit from more empirical, qualitative indicators that can be easily assessed in the field.
“Approaches targeting farmers and stressing the educational aspect bene fi t from more empirical, qualitative indicators that can be easily assessed in the fi eld”
From Soil quality – A critical review (2018) · cites this paper as Beare et al., 1997
The ‘Identifying suitable on-farm indicators’ section (page unavailable) says indicators should be easy for farmers to use and straightforward to interpret. ‘Developing the Soil Quality Monitoring System’ (page unavailable) describes a qualitative visual assessment, but says the other indicators are quantitative. The paper does not establish that educational approaches particularly benefit from empirical, qualitative indicators. (LLM, conf=0.83)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredThese empirical, qualitative indicators facilitate communication between farmers and scientists.
“and facilitate communication between farmers and scientists (Beare et al., 1997).”
From Soil quality – A critical review (2018) · cites this paper as Beare et al., 1997
In “Identifying suitable on-farm indicators” (page unavailable), the paper says on-farm indicators should be practical for farmers and scientists alike and straightforward to interpret. “Developing the Soil Quality Monitoring System” (page unavailable) describes one qualitative visual assessment, but says the other indicators are quantitative. The paper does not say that the indicators facilitate communication between farmers and scientists. (LLM, conf=0.78)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredThese empirical, qualitative indicators deliver immediate results.
“deliver immediate results”
From Soil quality – A critical review (2018) · cites this paper as Beare et al., 1997
The 'Identifying suitable on-farm indicators' section describes methods selected for practical on-farm use, and 'Developing the Soil Quality Monitoring System' describes a qualitative visual assessment. Neither section says how soon the methods deliver results; searches for immediate or rapid results found no passage establishing that timing. Page numbers were not available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.70)
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- Bakker, H.J.I. (Ed) 1990. The World Food Crisis: Food Security in Comparative Perspective. Canadian Scholars Press, Toronto. 530p.
- Cameron, K.C. Cornforth, I.S., McLaren, R.G., Beare, M.H., Basher, L.R., Metherell, A.K., and Kerr, L.E. 1996. Soil Quality Indicators for Sustainable Agriculture in New Zealand: Proceedings of a Workshop. Lincoln Soil Quality Research Centre, Lincoln University, New Zealand.
- Hammond, A.L. (ed) 1992. World Resources 1992-3. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
- Hillel, D., 1992. Out of the Earth: Civilisation and the Life of the Soil. The Free press, New York. 321p.
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- Authors
- Beare, M. H., Cameron, K. C., Williams, P. H., & Doscher, C.
- Affiliations
- Lincoln University (NZ)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the New Zealand Plant Protection Conference
- Publisher
- New Zealand Plant Protection Society
- Published
- 1997-08-01
- Volume
- 50
- Pages
- 520-528
- ISSN
- 0370-0968 (ISSN-L)
- 1172-0719
- OpenAlex
- W2402903810
- Cited by
- 10
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2024: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2018: 2 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 12.13
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Locations
- Proceedings of the New Zealand Weed Control Conference (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil Management and Crop Yield
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil Science and Environmental Management
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agronomy and Crop Science › Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Keywords
- soil quality monitoring, sustainable agriculture, sustainable land management, agricultural management practices, soil quality indicators, land use intensification
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