Connecting Soil Research to the Field

Soil research is most valuable when it reflects the real challenges growers are seeing and helps them make better management decisions.   In this episode, host Lyle Cowell is joined by Dr. Chantel Chizen, Assistant Professor in the Department of Soil Science at the University of Saskatchewan, to discuss how conversations with farmers have helped shape priorities for her new research group. Chantel explores her current research into low-yielding and marginal areas of fields, prairie wetlands, soil carbon, soil health and soil variability across Saskatchewan.   They also discuss how tools such as satellite and drone imagery and digital soil mapping are changing the way soils are studied, efforts to build a new provincial soil data hub and interpretation guide and why continued engagement with farmers and agronomists is essential to keeping soil research connected to the field.   Looking for the latest in crop nutrition research? Visit nutrien-ekonomics.com   Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@NutrieneKonomics