In the name of building healthier soils, the CottonInfo team are inviting you to participate in this\u00a0fun soil science experiment to see how healthy your cotton soil is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
All you need to do is bury a pair of 100 per cent white cotton undies in topsoil for two months and then check the level of decomposition. If there\u2019s not much left of the undies you have good biological activity, which indicates healthy soil. These same soil organisms can break down plant materials in much the same way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As biological activity is much more obvious when there’s good soil moisture, this coming\u00a0season is a great opportunity to give this a go! To\u00a0participate, simply contact your local CottonInfo REO<\/a> to request a pair of cotton undies, bury them, dig them up two months later, and share your photos with your\u00a0REO,\u00a0the twitter community using the hashtag\u00a0#soilyourundies<\/a>, and online using our interactive map<\/a>.\u00a0 For more information, visit CottonInfo’s soil your undies webpage<\/a>!\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the name of building healthier soils, the CottonInfo team are inviting you to participate in this\u00a0fun soil science experiment to see how healthy your cotton soil is. All you need to do is bury a pair of 100 per cent white cotton undies in topsoil for two months and then check the level of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","iawp_total_views":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[196,101],"class_list":["post-4987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cropping","tag-soil","pmpro-has-access","category-81","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4990,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4987\/revisions\/4990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mli.org.au\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}