MADISON, Wis. – In fall 2022 after Midwestern farmers had gathered the last crops of the season, a team of University of Wisconsin-College of Agricultural and Life Sciences agronomy researchers hurried into the fields to collect samples of the soil. They had just received a grant for the Soil Organic Carbon network – or SOCnet. It’s a new decade-long study that could change the way farming affects the earth. To kick-start the project the research group needed to take baseline samples post-harvest – but before farmers began managing the soil for the next batch. Only a rapid response would do.
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Hal Conick is a freelance journalist.
