Getting Familiar With Soil Health And Sustainable Agriculture With Sean Smukler

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Richard Jacobs

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4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Sean M. Smukler joins the podcast today to discuss soil health and sustainable agriculture. Sean is the Principal Investigator of the SAL lab, and Associate Professor and Chair of Agriculture and Environment in Land and Food Systems at the University of British Columbia.

Sean realized at an early age that he thoroughly enjoyed working with plants and soil. After studying ecology at UC Davis and the University of Washington, Sean has focused his research on managing agriculture to enhance soil productivity for future generations.

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In this episode, you will learn about:

Challenges that researchers are seeing with soil health, and the solutions that may be out there.
The factors that contribute to poor soil health, and how farmers can mitigate these issues.
What healthy soil really looks like.

Soil health is a complex and intriguing subject to explore – and it affects more than you may think… Listen now to find out how soil is being preserved so that our agricultural systems can effectively and sustainably produce food and fuel!

To find out more about Sean Smukler and his work, click here!

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0:00.0	realized early on that I really enjoyed working with plants and soil and did a degree at UC Davis
0:06.1	in California and got to witness firsthand as an undergraduate, some of the amazing research
0:12.4	that was going on at Davis, which is a land grant institution really focused on providing farmers
0:18.9	with research and extension. One of the typical ways a farmer will transition would be to
0:26.1	mo that cover crop and then turn the cover crop, plow that cover crop into the soil,
0:31.6	and then the cover crop would be decomposed by the organisms in the soil making the nutrients
0:37.2	available. Increased stress is linked with teeth grinding and clenching, which causes poor
0:42.4	sleep, jaw pain and headaches. Did you know that one in every four adults grind or cleanse
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1:39.9	Finding Genius Podcast with Richard Jacobs. Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding
1:49.1	Genius Podcast on the surviving part time spot cut. I have Sean Smuckler, PhD, is an associate
1:55.6	professor, also an associate dean of graduate and postdoctoral studies. He's the chair of agriculture
2:01.2	and environmental faculty of land and food systems. So quite a number of designations,
2:06.0	and we're going to talk about his research today at this loyal health and sustainable agriculture.
2:10.4	So Sean, thank you for coming. Yeah, you bet. Thanks for having me. No problem. If you would just
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