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Multiple Perceptions Of Soil Health: A Transdisciplinary Collaborative Study Of Two Contrasting Grain Farms In Columbia County, Ny, Gemma G. Allen

Senior Projects Spring 2020

The global carbon pool located in soils is being depleted with time, partially contributing to anthropogenic climate change by means of land use changes and management of soils for food production. Farmer adoption of conservation practices geared towards soil carbon sequestration is an opportunity to reverse this depletion of the soil organic carbon pool. In this project, I investigated farmer perceptions of certain management strategies that have been shown to sequester soil carbon and improve soil health. By interviewing two prominent farmers in Columbia County, I assess options for improving their farms soil health and soil carbon, in addition to …