I posted on this in June 2025 when it was reported in the old AgResearch website. Hopefully we can find out more about the back story to this project and the ongoing monitoring plans. “A long-term evaluation of biochar incorporation … Continue reading
Do We Now Know How to Recreate Terra Preta? Betsy Kettle has been featured here a number of times. You can get to know her & her work from CCC S1E5. Betsy has provided the following report covering seven years … Continue reading
Dylan kicks off season 2 of CCC with a focus on the dairy farm. This fits nicely with the new BNNZ feature on dairy: https://biochar.net.nz/about-biochar/economic-applications/dairy-cows-and-biochar … Continue reading
Biochar gets a mention here. Stephen is also connected with City-to-Farm which has been covered here previously (https://soilcarbon.org.nz/city-to-farm/#comment-3269), including a CharChitChat with Betsy Kettle (https://soilcarbon.org.nz/?s=betsy&x=15&y=2) … Continue reading
There is plenty of biochar history here, coming from way up north. This looks like exciting progress, focusing on major new plans. … Continue reading
The bio for the above story does not specifically mention biochar but a G-Scholar search on Prof. Condron pulls a lot of historic research conducted at Lincoln, mostly around the interaction of biochar with N. I’ve filtered the results with … Continue reading
Samuel Robb and Stephen Joseph have pulled together some very interesting economic case studies that provide insight and guidance for biochar applications in NZ. Eight case studies are featured: beef (2); avocado; potato; cucumber; zucchini; golf courses; saline soil. From … Continue reading
Two related articles are in mainstream media circulation on Northland iwi successes with progressing their biochar ambitions. The first Herald story was posted to the BNNZ FB page – link here A followup article to regional papers can be downloaded … Continue reading
I’ve posted before on Royal Society discussion on biochar (try a search on ‘royal society’). I missed this important report [linked here] when it was released last year. A search on ‘biochar’ in the report pulls some results. Here are … Continue reading
I was critical of LandCare Research in a recent (17Dec) Biochar@ABE FB post based on this video… I posted a comment: “Could someone from LCR or Lincoln advise if biochar was considered as a tool worthy of study in these … Continue reading