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Articles | Volume 12, issue 2
Articles | Volume 12, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-12-1035-2026
© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-12-1035-2026
© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 12, issue 2
Original research article
 | 
26 Oct 2026
Original research article |  | 26 Oct 2026

Soil health management outweighs edaphic properties in explaining soil organic matter across working organic farms

Kenzo E. Esquivel, Hannah Waterhouse, Jennifer Thompson, Daniel S. Karp, Grace Santos, Yordi Gil-Santos, Patrick Baur, Alastair Iles, and Timothy Bowles

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We studied how farming practices like cover cropping, reduced tillage, and crop diversity relate to soil carbon on 28 California organic farms. Fields with more continuous plant cover and less tillage tended to have more particulate organic carbon, with weaker but positive signals for slower-cycling mineral-associated carbon. Management explained trends in particulate and mineral-associated carbon more than soil properties, suggesting that farming practices could help build soil carbon.

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