Engineering Your Farm

Biochar: A Multipurpose Tool for Improving Agricultural Sustainability

March 21, 2023 Field Agricultural Engineers Episode 26
Engineering Your Farm
Biochar: A Multipurpose Tool for Improving Agricultural Sustainability
Show Notes

What is biochar and how can we use it to improve the sustainability of animal agriculture? In this episode we sit down with Carly Graves, a graduate research assistant in the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering North Carolina State University.  Carly recently co-authored of a review paper evaluating the use of biochar to improve the sustainability of animal production and has also studied the use of engineered biochar as a poultry litter amendment. Listen in as we discuss agricultural applications for biochar and ways it can be used to improve agronomic and environmental outcomes. Access the review paper here