UMaine to Host Compost Scientist for Soil Fertility Talk
Contact: Sue Erich, (207) 581-2997
The University of Maine Department of Plant, Soil and Environmental Sciences, along with the Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station Analytical Laboratory and Soil Testing Service, will host Dr. Will Brinton, the founder and president of Woods End Laboratory in Mt. Vernon, for a seminar starting at 10 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 17.
The seminar, which will be followed by discussion and a reception, will be held in Deering Hall, room 113. The event is free and open to the public.
Brinton will discuss a relatively new method he has developed to evaluate active carbon in soils and predict soil-supplying potential for nitrogen and phosphorus.
Woods End Laboratory is the country’s longest-running independent organic soil and compost laboratory. The lab specializes in testing soils, plants, organic wastes and agrichemicals.
Brinton has published more than 50 scientific papers on soil, compost and horticulture.
For more information contact Sue Erich, UMaine professor of plant and soil chemistry.