I Went to School for Agriculture and Everything They Taught Me About Soil Was Wrong

It wasn’t long ago that I was sitting in a college soil science course at my alma mater land grant university. If I had just a penny for every time the phrases “soil test”, “law of the minimum” and “NPK” were repeated, I would be a very wealthy farmer by now.

We spent almost the entire semester listening to a conventionally-trained soil professor talk in circles about chemistry soil panels and synthetic mineral products that supposedly “need” to be added to the soil for crop success. They…