Nutrient-based yield theories have served agriculture for more than 150 years, but the problem, some soil scientists say, is those models were created without any concept of soil biology.
But with yields stagnating and soil health declining across much of the globe, soil biology might be the last frontier available to farmers for stabilizing and even growing yields, says Will Brinton, whose company, Woods End Laboratories, has pioneered new soil tests that measure soil biological…