Masters student Jack Moore engaged with crop advisors at the 2024 Diagnostic Days at Ridgetown Campus. He discusses how blue dye was used to trace water flow patterns in soils managed with cover crops or impacted with soil compaction. His results indicate that water tables under cover-cropped plots rose to shallower depths, with macropore flow often transporting nutrients deeper into the soil profile. These insights can guide how advisors and farmers how to manage soil to optimize nutrient and water management.
