Stop questioning if soil health pays. Instead, ask yourself how to measure the dollars and cents of your investments in soil health. I frequently hear farmers say, “There’s no way to know if cover ...

The Greenbelt Foundation, in partnership with the Soil Health Institute, has released a groundbreaking Regional Soil Health Report, offering farmers across the Greater Golden Horseshoe an entirely new ...

The farmer and rancher adage “if you take care of machinery, the machinery will take care of you” also applies to soil health. Cassidy Million, the director of ag science at Heliae Agriculture, ...

Building soil health is the leading strategy for controlling erosion. Healthy soil is rich with biodiversity and organic matter—the better to glue and anchor clumps of earth. Practices like cover ...

A lush crop of well-fertilized corn. Photo courtesy of DCR. U.S. Reps. Don Beyer of Virginia, Mike Lawler of New York and Chellie Pingree of Maine yesterday introduced the Innovative Practices for ...

A reunion of sorts brought believers and curious food producers to Salina, Kansas in mid-January, to share and learn about regenerative agriculture. Parking lots packed with pickup trucks as farmers, ...

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., June 17, 2021 /CSRwire/ - The Soil Health Institute (SHI), the non-profit charged with safeguarding and enhancing the vitality and productivity of soils, has been ...

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GARY — The quarter-acre farm outside Peter Rock Church of God in Christ is part outdoor classroom, part science lab. Laminated signs labeled "Field Test" one through six, sit beside neat rows of ...

The Arizona Department of Agriculture will give $1.8 million to landowners working on soil health innovation and sustainable desert farming.

The state agriculture department will award $1.8 million under a new program to help farmers conserve water by improving soil health. The money will fund projects that use specific methods or ...