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Prairie Shepherd, The Microbiometer is definitely a cool tool providing repeatable results if used on the same device (phone/tablet)--perfect for relative comparisons to see if you're pushing your compost/soil in one direction or another. Just be aware that your results may vary a great deal...

Bob, Or perhaps we need fewer than 8 billion people?... For soil carbon and agregate building via biological processes, the data is there. Are you familiar with John Kemf's podcasts: http://regenerativeagriculturepodcast.com/ (the first three are real eye openers). Dr. Elaine Ingham...

Bob, Thanks for your note. I'm glad that you mentioned you were the last person to suggest man-made chemicals for environmental application, but then you did. There are biological alternatives that are as effective, less costly, and dont intriduce synthetic chemicals into our soil. Elaine...

Linda, Thanks for sharing all you learned from the talks referenced above, as well as the grassland paper. I especially appreciate the distinctions you motioned between Particulate Organic Matter and Mineral-associated Organic Matter. Have you run across references directly comparing carbon...

Emily! We are here! See: www.pce.farm/bees www.wncqbc.com for the work I do with breeding varroa resistant queens from feral swarms.

Hernan, I don't have quantitative results, but overall, I believe the biochar we make, condition in our compost piles, and spread on our little startup farm is providing benefit. I have read/heard it can be especially useful for soils with low cation exchange capacity, and recently learned in...

Linda, do you have some references regarding the net carbon release from biochar production? A search on scholar.google.gov for 'biochar carbon sequestration' seems to provide a variety of results that indicate biochar as a net carbon sink...though of course the devil is in the details. Source...

Thanks for the benefits of rice hull biochar article. Good stuff. Have the East Texas rice farmers read, "One Straw Revolution" -Fukuoka. He describes rice cultivation techniques that reduce flooding and eliminate N application.