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Underpants experiments are taking place in Australian paddocks and gardens — all in the name of soil health
Pairs of tighty whities are being buried in backyards and farms across the nation to check how healthy soil is.
Key points:
- The more degraded the cotton underpants are after eight weeks underground, the better the soil quality
- The experiment has since been launched as a citizen science program
- Farmers across the country have been getting on board to learn more about their soil’s biology and health
Soil Your Undies is a joint campaign by the University of New England (UNE) and CottonInfo.
The experiment is to bury 100-per-cent cotton underwear for eight weeks and then dig them back up.
The more degraded they are means the better the soil health is as it measures microbial activity.
UNE professor Oliver Knox said they started the experiment…
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