Join eOrganic for a free webinar on organic practices that affect the soil microbiome, featuring studies from two soil microbiome projects conducted in New York State by Cornell University researchers. Local organic farmer stakeholders will highlight their efforts to manage the microbiome and soil health.

About the Webinar

Evidence suggests that organic management increases the diversity of beneficial soil microbes for plant roots. However, scientific evidence remains scarce on the specific organic production practices that promote soil organism diversity consistently across fields and their functions in crop resilience. This webinar will feature studies from two soil microbiome projects conducted in New York State by Cornell University researchers. In the first study you will receive information on specific practices that consistently shifted soil microbiomes across more than 85 organic farms in New York State that donated their soil for microbiome sequencing and analysis. Results will also be presented from a multi-year manipulative cover cropping experiment using no-tillage and soil microbiome transfer experiments to determine which cover crops are most effective at increasing crop resilience through changes in the soil microbiome. Accompanying the researchers will be presentations by local organic farmer stakeholders who will highlight their efforts to manage the microbiome and soil health.

Presenters: Elias Bloom and Zoe Economos, Cornell University; Zaid Kurdieh, Norwich Meadows Farm; Jason Grauer, Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture.