Over the summer of 2010 outside of Champaign, IL, ISTC scientists used biochar as a soil amendment on a test plot of corn. The project was sponsored by the Illinois Department of Agriculture and the Sustainable Agriculture Grant Program. For more information about ISTC's involvement in biochar, please visit http://www.istc.illinois.edu/research/biochar.cfm.
What were the results of the study? It looked like all of the corn was harvested and mixed at the same time by a combine?
MatthewBanchero 2 months ago
Your soil looks dead! Biochar has tiny holes which can provide home for soil microbes. The soil microbes help the roots get nutrients. Chemical fertilizers kill the native microbes so your plants become dependent on the fertilizers in order to live. You will need more and more chemical fertilizers and the cycle goes on. So now your plants are like stoned zombies living in a ghost village. Won't taste good and won't be good for you.
tj21bem 6 months ago
an excercise in futility if you till the soil and add chemical fertiliser to kill the soil...
Gardensnog 8 months ago
FYI, the link at the end of the description has an extra period (.) at the end that messes up the link.
What were the results of your study? Surely you have analyzed the samples by now.
romedeiros70 1 year ago