Soil Quality

Videos

• Soil Compaction - Do's & Don'ts Of Mechanical Intervention

• Soil Cultivation Systems

• Soil Compaction - Double spade method

• Soil Compaction - Prevention using cover crops

Publications

• The soil structure ABC - A practical guide to managing soil structure (PDF)
• GrassVESS - Assessing soil structure in grassland systems (PDF)
• Double Spade - Assessing soil structure in tillage systems (PDF)

Scientific Publications

2019

• Bacher, M. G., Schmidt, O., Bondi, G., Creamer, R. E., & Fenton, O. (2019). Comparison of Soil Physical Quality Indicators using direct and indirect data inputs derived from a combination of in-situ and ex-situ methods. Soil Science Society of America Journal.  doi: 10.2136/sssaj2018.06.0218.
• Emmet-Booth, J. P., Forristal, P. D., Fenton, O., Bondi, G., & Holden, N. M. (2019). Visual soil evaluation–Spade vs. profile methods and the information conveyed for soil management. Soil and Tillage Research, 187, 135-14

2018

• Bacher, M. G., Fenton, O., Bondi, G., Creamer, R. E., Karmarkar, M., & Schmidt, O. (2018). The impact of cattle dung pats on earthworm distribution in grazed pastures. BMC ecology, 18(1), 59.
• Emmet‐Booth, J. P., Bondi, G., Fenton, O., Forristal, P. D., Jeuken, E., Creamer, R. E., & Holden, N. M. (2018). Grass VESS: a modification of the visual evaluation of soil structure method for grasslands. Soil Use and Management, 34(1), 37-47 
• Bondi, G., Creamer, R., Ferrari, A., Fenton, O., & Wall, D. (2018). Using machine learning to predict soil bulk density on the basis of visual parameters: Tools for in-field and post-field evaluation. Geoderma, 318, 137-147

2017

• Fenton, O., Vero, S., Schulte, R. P., O’Sullivan, L., Bondi, G., & Creamer, R. E. (2017). Application of Dexter’s soil physical quality index: an Irish case study. Irish journal of agricultural and food research, 56(1), 45-53.

2016

• Coyle, C., Creamer, R. E., Schulte, R. P., O'Sullivan, L., & Jordan, P. (2016). A functional land management conceptual framework under soil drainage and land use scenarios. Environmental Science & Policy, 56, 39-48. 
• Emmet‐Booth, J. P., Forristal, P. D., Fenton, O., Ball, B. C., & Holden, N. M. (2016). A review of visual soil evaluation techniques for soil structure. Soil Use and Management, 32(4), 623-634.