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  • Poor soils lose carbon regardless of crop residue and nitrogen inputs

    May 15, 2023 11:45 am by Lauren QuinnResearch
    study author Tanjila Jesmin with Richard Mulvaney, professor in NRES

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    • study author Tanjila Jesmin with Richard Mulvaney, professor in NRES

    Many farmers think if they add plenty of nitrogen fertilizer, that nitrogen and carbon will be stored in the soil as organic matter when microbes decompose crop residue. New U of I research suggests those efforts might not work for poor soils.