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ecmn | Can we all come back to the table for a moment and answer the original questions in a simple outline form? I appreciate everyone’s enthusiasm and passion, but to keep the conversation productive, I’d like clear, direct answers to the specific questions I asked at the start.
1. Do you have a working definition of “mining the soil”?
2. What parameters are you using to quantify that claim?
Standard soil test, total digestible assay, crop removal math, something else?
3. Do you distinguish between depleting the available nutrient pool and the geological pool?
4. If soil test levels remain stable over time regardless of farming practices, is that farmer actually mining the soil?
5. How do you account for parent material?
For example: soils where K levels barely move whether you apply a lot, a little, or none, with no crop response and minimal change on paper.
If we can answer these directly, we’ll all be talking about the same thing instead of different versions of the term.
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Can we agree on a definition of mining the soil?
