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Broad Range of Searchable Biochar Information

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Burn Igniting a New Carbon Drawdown Economy to End the Climate Crisis

Burn - Igniting a New Carbon Drawdown Economy to End the Climate Crisis by Albert Bates and Kathleen Draper
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Using biochar to improve soil quality on decommissioned roads

U.S. National Forests have over 380,000 miles of roads. Many of these roads are over 25 years old, sub-standard, compacted, and invaded with…
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The 3R Principles for Applying Biochar to Improve Soil Health

Amending soil with biochar is a promising approach to persistently improve soil health and promote crop growth.
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Composting with Biochar

Ideally, in composting you get paid a decent fee to receive, process and create a quality product. But what happens when it doesn’t go quite right ?
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Biochar and Pesticides

This short summary from the National Pesticide Information Center reviews the effects of biochar on pesticides in soil. Biochar can bind to…
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Practice Guideline: Plant Bioassays to Evaluate Biochar Compost

This guideline was developed by the Umpqua Biochar Education Team for an NRCS Conservation Innovation Grant.
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Fourth-Generation Dairy Family Powers the Future

The Scott family in 2012 proposed to build a state-of-the-art manure gasification system - based on the Fischer–Tropsch  process from early 20th…
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Combined Heat and Biochar (CHAB) Fact Sheet

Combined heat and biochar (CHAB) technologies are systems that optimize the combustion of wood residues.
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Weight or Volume for Handling Biochar and Biomass?

Biomass and biochar products are often described in scientific literature by weight but handled and sold in the commercial space by volume.