CAESA Soil Quality Program Research Factsheets

The following research factsheets summarize some of the research results from the Soil Quality Program of the Canada-Alberta Environmentally Sustainable Agriculture Agreement. This five-year, cost-shared agreement was completed in 1997. It funded research, monitoring and technology transfer related to environmentally sustainable agricultural production and processing. The Soil Quality Program monitored and assessed agricultural soil quality. Each of the research factsheets outlines the problem under investigation, study methods and major findings, and provides some applied questions to illustrate the practical implications of the research.

Monitoring Benchmark Sites

• Benchmark sites for monitoring agricultural soil quality
• Effects of Long-term cultivation on a morainal landscape
• Soil variability in morainal landscapes of east-central Alberta
  

• Residue cover versus soil clods for wind erosion protection on fallow
• Soil nutrient redistribution by wind erosion
• Herbicide residues in windblown sediment
• Quantifying wind erosion losses in Alberta
• Overwinter changes in wind erodibility characteristics of clay loam soils in southern Alberta
• Relationships between the wind erodible fraction and freeze-thaw cycles in southern Alberta

• Trends in dryland salinity
• Saline slough rings