Biochar 2016: August 22-25, 2016 Experience the Synergy Over the last several years, researchers have helped open up many promising avenues for biochar market development in North America. Likewise, many entrepreneurs and small business owners have made investments to develop … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2016
I have no specific experience or special understanding of compost but I do recognize that compost is going to be a very important future pathway for biochar to the soil. It is easy to find plenty of research pointing toward … Continue reading
This press release should be of interest to NZ biochar community. Our response in NZ seems quite narrow – we have sunk a lot of effort into NZAGRC but maybe stopped looking at other ideas. Why not broaden the picture… … Continue reading
“The Soil Science Society of America promotes good science and practice related to soils and believes that the application of biochar materials offers promising solutions to agricultural and environmental concerns like climate change, soil health, and water contamination,” says Harold … Continue reading
RESEARCH PROPOSAL TO RETAIN NITROGEN IN PASTURE SOILS – Use of No-tillage to apply biochar into pasture root zones New Zealanders are waking up … to the environmental costs & unintended consequences of intensive dairy farming practices, in particular intensively managed … Continue reading
BIOCHAR HORIZON 2025 – by Hans Peter Schmidt & Simon Shackley, (2016) book chapter in Biochar in European Spoils and Agriculture Summarizes the progress of biochar science & applications in agricultural practices. From historical assessment of lessons learned & progress … Continue reading
Combining biochar and organic amendments; Claudia Kammann, Bruno Glaser and Hans-Peter Schmidt Published as Chapter 6 in: Simon Shackley, Greet Ruysschaert, Kor Zwar and Bruno Glaser (editors): Biochar in European Soils, Routledge, London, 2016, pp. 136-164 see: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301295876_Combining_Biochar_and_Organic_Amendments This chapter summarizes … Continue reading
Another great article from the team at the Biochar Journal… Planting Urban Trees with Biochar by Bjorn Embrén “Urban trees face various challenges which frequently lead to high tree mortality, shorter lifespans and increased maintenance cost. To improve tree health … Continue reading
Prof. Marta Camps from NZBRC has circulated notice on an important opportunity for the NZ biochar community to engage with what should be one of our most important allies… the NZ Society of Soil Scientists. Looking at the usual list … Continue reading
Biochar in NZ gets some mainstream media coverage. Congrats to Jane Wrigglesworth who has done an admirable job. The final section tries to describe a home made production method. This is a little narrow and would have been better describing … Continue reading