Ready for the 'Soil Olympics'? In this episode of Lowdown Underground, Megan and Bailey welcome Paul Tietz (University of Idaho PhD student and soil judging coach) to talk about soil judging: regional contests, national contests, his recent trip to Nanjing, China for the International Soil Judging Contest alongside the World Congress of Soil Science. Paul breaks down how Team USA is selected, what it’s like to prep a team across the country on Zoom, and why competing internationally means learning not one, but two classification systems (US Soil Taxonomy and the World Reference Base), plus all the nitty-gritty details of competition scorecards. You'll learn Team USA stacked up on the world stage and how global soil judging is growing.

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