SCCC Director shares his soil health experience in PEI
EARTH DAY: P.E.I. soil health measures appear to have stopped declines in soil organic matter
Vernon Campbell believes there is always going to be a trade-off in terms of soil health and farming.
Where there is farming, there is tillage of the soil, says Campbell, whose potato, beef and dairy farm is based near Summerfield, P.E.I.
“With potatoes or any vegetable crop, you can’t not till them. There’s got to be a certain amount of tillage,” Campbell said. “Tillage is the enemy of organic matter.”