Along with her colleagues, Marla Riekman, land management specialist with Manitoba Agriculture, took up a shovel last month at Crop Diagnostic School to help show what’s going on underground with roots. Allan Dawson met up with Riekman to learn about the types of root systems in crops, how they extract nutrients from the soil, the effects of soil compaction and the best tool you likely already own to help diagnose compaction if you think there’s a problem.
Video editing by Greg Berg.
