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Overview

Ray R. Weil is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, contributing extensively to multiple subfields within these areas.

Their work covers a range of specific subfields including Soil Science, Environmental Chemistry, Agronomy and Crop Science, Plant Science, and Pollution. Weil's main research themes include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems, Crop Yield and Soil Fertility, Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism, Heavy metals in environment, and Agricultural Innovations and Practices.

Frequent publication venues for Weil's research include Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, Journal of Environmental Quality, Agronomy Journal, Journal of Development Economics, and Soil Science Society of America Journal.

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Weil include:

  • The joint effects of information and financing constraints on technology adoption: Evidence from a field experiment in rural Tanzania, 2021, Journal of Development Economics
  • Assessing and understanding non-responsiveness of maize and soybean to fertilizer applications in African smallholder farms, 2020, Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
  • Scavenging and recycling deep soil nitrogen using cover crops on mid-Atlantic, USA farms, 2020, Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
  • Can permanganate oxidizable carbon predict soil function responses to soil organic matter management?, 2021, Soil Science Society of America Journal
  • Sulfur fertility management to enhance methionine and cysteine in soybeans, 2021, Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture

Weil has collaborated frequently with co-authors such as Nathan Sedghi, Cheryl Palm, Sarah M. Hirsh, Haonan Chen, and Lizhen Zhu.

Best Publications

  • The nature and properties of soils

    Nyle C Brady;Ray R Weil

  • Estimating active carbon for soil quality assessment: A simplified method for laboratory and field use

    Ray R. Weil;Kandikar R. Islam;Melissa A. Stine;Joel B. Gruver

  • Land use effects on soil quality in a tropical forest ecosystem of Bangladesh

    K.R Islam;R.R Weil

  • Elements of the Nature and Properties of Soils

    Nyle C. Brady;Ray R. Weil

  • Soil Organic Matter in Sustainable Agriculture

    Fred Magdoff;Ray R. Weil

  • Microwave irradiation of soil for routine measurement of microbial biomass carbon

    K. R. Islam;R. R. Weil

  • The State of Soil Degradation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Baselines, Trajectories, and Solutions

    Katherine L. Tully;Clare Sullivan;Ray Weil;Pedro A. Sanchez

  • Significance of soil organic matter to soil quality and health.

    Ray R. Weil;Fred Magdoff

  • Crop Cover Root Channels May Alleviate Soil Compaction Effects on Soybean Crop

    Stacey M. Williams;Ray R. Weil

  • Penetration of cover crop roots through compacted soils

    Guihua Chen;Ray R. Weil

  • Soil quality indicator properties in mid-Atlantic soils as influenced by conservation management.

    K. R. Islam;R. R. Weil

  • Root growth and yield of maize as affected by soil compaction and cover crops

    Guihua Chen;Guihua Chen;Ray R. Weil

  • The Nature and Properties of Soils, 13th Edition

    Nyle C. Brady;Ray R Weil

  • Effects of compaction and cover crops on soil least limiting water range and air permeability

    Guihua Chen;Ray R. Weil;Robert L. Hill

  • Brassica cover crops for nitrogen retention in the Mid-Atlantic coastal plain.

    Jill E. Dean;Ray R. Weil

  • Nitrate contamination of groundwater under irrigated Coastal Plain soils.

    R. R. Weil;R. A. Weismiller;R. S. Turner

  • Physical Condition of a Davidson Clay Loam after Five Years of Heavy Poultry Manure Applications

    R. R. Weil;W. Kroontje

  • Can a Labile Carbon Test be Used to Predict Crop Responses to Improve Soil Organic Matter Management

    S. T. Lucas;S. T. Lucas;R. R. Weil

  • Thinking across and beyond disciplines to make cover crops pay

    Ray Weil;Amy Kremen

  • Dairy Manure Effects on Soil Quality Properties and Carbon Sequestration in Alfalfa–Orchardgrass Systems

    D. H. Min;K. R. Islam;L. R. Vough;R. R. Weil

  • SOIL ORGANIC MATTER

    Fred Magdoff;Ray R. Weil

  • Forage Radish Cover Crop Suppresses Winter Annual Weeds in Fall and Before Corn Planting

    Yvonne E. Lawley;Ray R. Weil;John R. Teasdale

  • Soil organic matter management strategies.

    F. Magdoff;R. R. Weil;R. W. Ray

  • Forage radish and cereal rye cover crop effects on mycorrhizal fungus colonization of maize roots

    Charles M. White;Ray R. Weil

Frequent Co-Authors

Michel A. Cavigelli
Michel A. Cavigelli Agricultural Research Service
Steven B. Mirsky
Steven B. Mirsky Agricultural Research Service
John R. Teasdale
John R. Teasdale United States Department of Agriculture
Cheryl A. Palm
Cheryl A. Palm University of Florida
Ronald F. Turco
Ronald F. Turco Purdue University West Lafayette
Pedro A. Sanchez
Pedro A. Sanchez University of Florida
Brian J. Wienhold
Brian J. Wienhold US Department of Agriculture
Jude E. Maul
Jude E. Maul Agricultural Research Service
Rhae A. Drijber
Rhae A. Drijber University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Bernard Vanlauwe
Bernard Vanlauwe International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

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