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According to Will Brinton, soil labs may be reluctant to adopt soil biology tests due to complicated outdated (and costly) methods. “It’s too bad since this is impeding the country getting on with much needed soil quality assessment”. One older method, still sometimes used, measures microbial biomass by an indirect process called fumigation-incubation (FI). FI is complicated and requires use of toxi

NOFA VERMONT  (Univ of Vermont, Saturday, February 11, 2012) : As the environment applies pressure to agricultural standards there is a dire need to accurately assess application rates of fertilizers to our soils. In this workshop hosted by NOFA Vermont, Woods End Laboratories discussed Solvita, a tool for direct biological assessment of soils developed with a decade of research from Woods End and the USDA-ARS. This