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A soil-first farm — and what it could mean for the harvest | Ines Auclair

Field Notes Daily

Mar 19 · 14 min 32 sec

Episode Description

What if the ground under a farm could do the work of a fertiliser plant? In a talk about slow, unglamorous science, soil ecologist Ines Auclair walks through nine seasons of field trials in the Cévennes — rebuilding fungal networks under 340 hectares of wheat, and cutting nitrogen inputs by 41% without losing yield

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