Soil Health Digital Cafe Series: Cover Crop/Soil Health On-Farm Research Partnership Between UNL and NRCS
Join the Soil Health Nexus for this week’s edition of the Soil Health Digital Cafe Series.
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Arkansas Soil & Water Virtual Field Trip: No-till Watermelon Cover Crop
This series of Soil & Water Conservation Virtual Field Trips (VFTs), focuses on the conservation benefits our researchers have developed with respect to water quality, irrigation water use, climate change, soil health, profitability, and sustainability throughRead More…
14Apr/20
One Farmer’s Conversion to Cover Crops and How Science Helped
By Jenny Seifert When Rick Juchems first got started in farming in the early 1980s, he wasn’t much into conservation. “I was just trying to survive,” he said. But his mind began to change after aRead More…
27Jan/20
Involvement in collaborative projects and partnerships is the key to making an impact in soil health in Indiana
What’s the key to educating and facilitating greater adoption of conservation practices that improve water quality and soil health? According to Purdue University professor Eileen J. Kladivko, it is collaboration and partnership. Eileen is a teacher,Read More…
Alternative Forage and Cover Crop Workshop
Join the USDA for an educational meeting of producers and industry professionals with presentations as well as open discussion for all. Area NRCS and South Dakota Soil Health Coalition will be present to share experiences andRead More…
22Feb/19
Farmers active in watershed groups more likely to plant cover crops
This article was written by J. Gordon Arbuckle Jr., Grant Wall, and Laurie Nowatzke of Iowa State University Extension and Outreach and published on their website. It has been republished here with their permission. Research byRead More…
19Dec/18
Improving Farming Sustainability through Enhanced Soil Management
Soil functions as a medium for growing plants, recycling organic materials and nutrients, and storing and purifying water. Healthy soil has an enhanced capacity to provide these ecosystem services. Soil management decisions at the farm levelRead More…
28Jun/18
Cover Crops Look to be changing Runoff Dynamics in Kansas
This spring and summer have been exciting months at the Kansas Agricultural Watershed (KAW) Field Research Facility. Nathan Nelson, Professor of Soil Fertility and Nutrient Management at Kansas State University, and his team have been busyRead More…