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Soil health research in Clovis, New Mexico

Interest in soil health practices is growing in the Southwest, but adoption rates remain low, partly due to limited information on how specific practices might impact water availability or soil nutrients in arid or semi-arid soils. Another challenge is that arid land soils naturally have very organic matter content (less than 2%), and the lack of water inhibits the biological processes that help build organic matter. Rajan Ghimire and his team at New Mexico State University’s Agricultural Science Center at Clovis are working to answer some of the questions that face soil health practitioners in arid and semi-arid lands.