Understanding Western Soils, For Agriculturislist like Farmers, Ranchers, and others.

Free Resources for teaching or learning about soil properties in the arid west. There are a number of short video demonstrations by respected professionals: such as Visualizing soil properties like water holding capacity and textures, reducing erosion, sampling soil. Great animations to make visable some hidden aspects of arid westerns soils. Like how do salts compete with plants for water; what is SAR?; Reason to use the olsen P when soil testing . Check it out at: http://westernsoil.nmsu.edu/ If you would take a short 15 second online survey to help improve this resource.