Global Soil Survey Update
Global Soil Survey for Sustainable Turf: October, 2014 Update
The Global Soil Survey was launched in August, 2013 to enlist turf managers from around the globe to collaborate in the development of new, more sustainable turf nutrient guidelines. After just over one year, we have several important advances to report:
- The First Annual Report on the Global Soil Survey was issued September, 2014.
- We have incorporated the data from the Global Soil Survey into our database of thousands of soil samples from good performing turf. As a result, the Minimum Levels for Sustainable Nutrition guidelines that were developed from the database have been updated. These updated MLSN Guidelines are shown here.
- We have designed a repository of all of the Global Soil Survey data. This will allow anyone who is interested to access the annual report, study or analyze the Survey data, or review our analytical approach.
- Information and results of the Global Soil Survey have been shared with researchers and turf managers in the following presentations and articles:
- A presentation, Only what the turf needs: Updating the Minimum Levels for Sustainable Nutrition Guidelines on the results of the Global Soil Survey. To be presented to turf scientists at the upcoming (November, 2014) Crop Science Society of America meetings, in Long Beach, CA.
- Getting there first: Global Soil Survey for Sustainable Turf guides superintendents to reduce nutrient inputs. Golf Course Industry, August 5, 2014.
- Global Soil Survey results challenge conventional guidelines. Golfdom, April 22, 2014.
- Sustainable fertilizer use, by superintendent Jason Haines, Pender Harbor Golf Club, January, 2014.
- Just what the grass requires: using minimum levels for sustainable nutrition. by Micah Woods, Larry Stowell and Wendy Gelernter. January, 2014 Golf Course Management article.
- A Golf Course Industry podcast from Dr. Micah Woods, Share your soil, on the Global Soil Survey.
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