Bioenergy Systems and Soil Health

May 2010

Tom Sauer, soil scientist for the USDA’s National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment in Ames, wants to know how vegetation changes soil quality, specifically the soil atmosphere around plant roots. His work is part of a larger project looking at biomass cropping systems for energy production. Filmed 2009.

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