Roots
Episode 2: The plant’s perspective
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Reading health from the crop, not just the soil report.
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Why balancing soil chemistry isn’t the same thing as health.
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What the plant feeds the soil, and what the soil feeds back.
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If you want your soil to change, grow something in it.
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By the end, you’ll…
- read health from the crop, not just the soil report
- explain what a plant feeds the soil, and what comes back
- see why a balanced soil test isn’t the same thing as health
“The scorecard for health is your plant.”
Episode 2 · The plant’s perspective
Take home
Read the plant first. The soil follows.
Try it on your farm
- Walk the crop before you open the soil report.
- Lift a plant and look at the life around its roots.
- Note what the crop is telling you, block by block.
From the Plant’s Perspective · Quorum Ag with Steve Martin
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Episode 2: The plant’s perspective
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In this episode
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Part 1The plant is the scorecard
Reading health from the crop, not just the soil report.
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Part 2Soil health follows plant health
Why balancing soil chemistry isn’t the same thing as health.
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Part 3Around the root
What the plant feeds the soil, and what the soil feeds back.
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Part 4Put a plant in there
If you want your soil to change, grow something in it.
By the end, you’ll…
- read health from the crop, not just the soil report
- explain what a plant feeds the soil, and what comes back
- see why a balanced soil test isn’t the same thing as health
“The scorecard for health is your plant.”
Episode 2 · not out yet
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Put a plant in there.
Balancing the soil test isn’t the same thing as health. The plant has a big say underground, as well as above it.
What the plant feeds the soil
A plant sends sugars down through its roots to the life around them, and that life feeds minerals back. Look after the plant and you’re feeding the soil at the same time.
“If you want your soil to change, you got to put a plant in there.”
That’s why the scorecard is the plant. The soil report estimates what’s on offer; the crop tells you whether it’s getting it.
