Fine-Tuning with Soil Health

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The popular assumption that healthy soils inherently produce healthy crops is false and contradicts established findings in plant pathology. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.CONTRADICTORY. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.CHALLENGES_CONSENSUS.

Andrew McGuire

doi:10.7273/000008593

September 1, 2026Open Access

Fine-Tuning with Soil Health

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To evaluate whether conventional indicators of soil health reliably correlate with crop health and the suppression of plant diseases.
Assessed plant pathology evidence and historical agronomic literature regarding the relationship between soil health indicators and disease manifestation.
Pathological evidence demonstrates that healthy soils do not consistently yield disease-free crops.
Standard soil health definitions fail to capture the specific biological and ecological mechanisms driving plant pathogen activity.

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Literature review questions conventional assumptions regarding crop health in agricultural soils, highlighting complex plant pathology dynamics.

Abstract

Healthy soils produce healthy crops. right? Nope. Although it would seem the very definition of soil health, this popular thinking does not match what plant pathologists find (Janvier et al., 2007). It s not true.

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Andrew McGuire (2026) studied this question.

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