SOIL CONDITIONER AND AMENDMENT TECHNOLOGIES

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