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Summary of the day [6 Febuary 2024]...
Long story short - I moved from a country where there’s an abundance of black soil to a country with a dry climate and not much black soil. Not only that, I moved from an apartment to a house with plenty of land. I believe strongly that growing my own produce is the way to go, but sadly I lack a lot of skill....
I've recently tried mixing the used coffee grounds in baking soda, and I'm seeing a very visible chemical reaction. I haven't tried putting it in the ground yet though.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi7918
Link to article https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3631410
The protestes are not all done yet, some farmers Union are against this government's decision and are still fighting for better revenues among other things.
This topic is pretty hotly debated. One of the issues is that time is a huge factor in getting meaningful data, at least in a mining sphere, where stockpile are huge and soil is stored for a long time.
In soils with very high 2:1 clay contents, the soils expand and contract as they are wetted and dried. This creates shear faces called slickenslides, like the one shown above. Essentially they clay expands so much it's forced to shear somehow, and this is the resulting shear plane....
This is a great and publicly available book for those that are curious about soil science
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