Volume
2, 1997
CONTENTS
Foreword
Can We Save This Fragile Earth? Agricultural Sustainability
Arthur Wallace and Garn A. Wallace
High-Precision Agricultural is an Excellent Tool for Conservation of Natural Resources
Arthur Wallace and Garn A. Wallace
SSSA Statement on Soil Quality
D.L. Karlan
"Each Additional Increment of Yield Becomes More Difficult to Achieve." Is that Correct?
Arthur Wallace
Fraction of Yield That Can Be Attributed to Interactions Among Inputs
Arthur Wallace
Review: A Farming Revolution: Sustainable Agricultural by Verlyn Klinkenborg. National Geographic, 18(6, Dec.):60-89(1995)
Arthur Wallace
Note: Ten Technologies or Procedures That Can Reverse Much of the Apparent Non-Sustainable Use of Land
Review: "Ecology Stands as the Interface Between Science and Public Policy" (Science Vol. 269, 1995)
Arthur Wallace
Note: Some Plant Nutrient Interactions Which Can Make Big Differences in Crop Yields
Note: Reasons For Using Water-Soluble Polyacrylamide in Landscape and Turf Soil Preparation
Note: Differences and Similarities Between Cross-Linked Polymer Gels For Water Absorption and Linear, Water-Soluble Polymers For Enhanced Soil Properties
Water-Soluble Polyacrylamide Soil Conditioner Technology Helps to Restore Disturbed Soils: Case History at Pershing Square
Garn Wallace
Need For Solution or Exchangeable Calcium and/or Critical EC Level For Flocculation of Clay by Polyacrylamides
Arthur Wallace and Garn A. Wallace
Note: Twelve Ways That Water-Soluble Polyacrylamide Can Increase Water-Use Efficiency (Wallace 1991)
Potential to Save Water in California's Imperial Valley with Water-Soluble Polymers, A New Tool to Optimize Water Use in Irrigation -An Example Plan Useful in Many Locations
Arthur Wallace and Garn A. Wallace
Note: Ten Reasons For Applying PAM (Water-Soluble Polyacrylamide) and Gypsum Simultaneously in Irrigation Water
Note: Managing Irrigation-Induced Erosion and Infiltration with Polyacylamide
Note: Soil Erosion
Note: Soil Stabilization with Synthetic Polymers
Note: Potential Role of Water-Soluble Copolymers in Conservation Tillage
Note: Particle Size of Water-Soluble Polyacrylamide Granules
Note: The USA Soil, Plant, Garden, Landscape Market
Note: Chemical Products Used in Erosion Control
How to Transplant Trees and Shrubs with Water-Soluble PAM
Garn A. Wallace
Transplanting Palm Trees
Wayne C. Morgan and Garn A. Wallace
Note: Irrigation with Reclaimed (Effluent) Water
Note: Use of Water-Soluble Polyacrylamide to Give Greater Water-Use Efficiency and Higher Yields For Major Field Crops - Possibility For Egypt
Note: Water-Soluble Polyacrylamide Flocculates a Wide Range of Products Other Than Clay
Note: Fugitive Dust and Its Control
Note: Erosion Control and Other Benefits From Use of Water-soluble Polyacrylamide in Landscape and Farm Work
Some Possible Uses of Soil Conditioners For Remediation
Arthur Wallace
Update of Literature Concerning Synthetic Polymer Soil Conditioners and Land Improvement
Arthur Wallace
Note: Labile and Stable Forms of Organic Matter
Note: The Values of Soil Organic Matter
Note: B-Vitamin Enhancement in Plants Resulting From Use of Organic Fertilizers
Book Review: Soil Microbial Ecology Marcel Dekker Inc. Editor: F.B. Metting Jr.1993. New York, Basel, Hong Kong, 646 Pages.
Arthur Wallace
Note: Will Composting of Municipal Solid Wastes Prove Successful? - Finding Uses For the Composts
Arthur Wallace and Garn A. Wallace
Do Compost and Biosolids Completely protect Against Toxicity From Heavy Metals?
Arthur Wallace and Garn A. Wallace
Zinc and Lead in Soils: Extractable, Plant Uptake, Threshold Levels
Arthur Wallace
Wong Letter
Arthur Wallace
Plant Disease Suppression by Organic Matter and Other Soil Conditioners
Arthur Wallace and Garn A. Wallace
Note: Compost Maturity
Note: The Salt Burden of Composts
Note: Paper Sludge For Soil Improvement
Note: Contributions of Composting to Acid Rain and Other Air Pollution
Note: Processing Objections to Location of Compost Facilities
Note: The Integration of Organic and Inorganic Nutrient Sources
Note: Salient Features of A Successful Program or Programs Needed to Recycle All Organic Wastes
Note: Management and Effective Uses of Green Wastes and Development of Standards For Their Use
Note: Nitrogen Fertilizer Influence on Stability of Soil Organic Matter
Book Review: Agriculture Utilization of Urban and Industrial By-Products. ASA Special Publication Number 58. Editors: D.L. Karlen, R. Wright, and W .D. Kemper. 1995 American Society of Agronomy, Inc., Crop Science Society of America, Inc., Soil Science Society of America, Inc., Madison, Wisconsin, USA, 295 Pages
Arthur Wallace
Will Your Soil or Plants Respond to Calcium (Gypsum)?
Garn A. Wallace
Note: Effect of Nutrient Solution EC (Electrical Conductivity) on Growth of Alfalfa
Note: Growth of the Use of Applying Gypsum as a Solution
Note: Enhancement of Organic Amendments with Gypsum , Some Reasons For Using Gypsum on Land in the Pacific Northwest
Arthur Wallace and Garn A. Wallace
Note: Use of Recycled Plasterboard Gypsum For Soil Application
Note: Summary of the Survey Made by John Reindl of Madison, Wisconsin, Concerning the Status of Recycling Drywall Gypsum for Agricultural Land Use (1995)
Note: The Excess Magnesium Problem in Soil
Simultaneous Use of Both Gypsum and Lime on Acid Soils
Arthur Wallace
Note: Surface Application of Lime Under No-Till Cropping
Soil Acidification From Use of Too Much Nitrogen Fertilizer
Arthur Wallace
Note: The Extent of Agriculture in the USA
Note: Allelopathy - A Symposium
Note: Decreasing the Terrorist Threat From Ammonium Nitrate Fertilizer
Can Increasing Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere Be Considered as an Amendment and Nutrient For Soil Use?
Arthur Wallace
Review: 'Preserving Agricultural Resources'. By Gary Gardner. Chapter 5, From State of the World, 1996, A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Towards a Sustainable Society. (Pages 78-94). W.W. Norton and Co., New York and London
Arthur Wallace
Note: Conditioner-Amendment Value of Forests
Note: Surfactants (Wetting Agents)
Note: Chloride in Crop Production
Note: Zero Valent Iron as a Soil Amendment
Note: Training of Consultants: Professional Schools for Agriculture
Does Nitrogen Cycle? Are There Two Cycles?
Arthur Wallace
Soil Conditioners and Amendments and Related Topics in the 1995 Meeting of the American Society For Horticulture Science
Arthur Wallace
Soil Conditioners and Amendments and Related Topics in the 1996 Meeting of the American Society for Horticulture Science
Arthur Wallace
Soil Conditioners and Amendments and Related Topics in the 1995 Meeting of the American Society of Agronomy
Arthur Wallace
Soil Conditioners and Amendments and Related Topics in the 1996 Meeting of the American Society of Agronomy, Indianapolis, Indiana
Arthur Wallace
Note: Correction of Iron Deficiency: A Possible Value-Added Use for Compost
Index for Soil Conditioner and Amendment Technologies Vol. 1
Index for Soil Conditioner and Amendment Technologies Vol. 2