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How to Conduct an In-Field Soil Health Assessment
By Bailey Tangen and Gabi Bolwerk Fall is a great time to start thinking about how to adjust your management practices to reduce erosion and improve soil health. A good first step is to understand the current state of your soil. To do this, you can perform a quick in-field soil health assessment. In this visual guide, we’ll walk you through how to conduct your own in-field soil health assessment.
The state of Minnesota's soil health: How many farmers are doing no-till, cover crops, and more
Tracking the use of practices like reduced tillage and cover crops that promote healthy soil is challenging but critical to gauge progress towards regional and state goals. By combining remote sensing, USDA Agricultural Census data, and state-reported cost-share, we’ve pulled together a county-level dataset that can serve as a baseline for comparison to track changes in Minnesota’s ag practices over the coming years. Here’s a quick peek at the current state of Minnesota’s soil health.
How Minnesota Farmers Increased Residue Coverage by 28% in 4 Years
By: Bailey Tangen, Marcelle Lewandowski & Anna Cates Tracking the use of practices like reduced tillage and cover crops that promote healthy soil is challenging but critical to gauge progress towards regional and state goals. By combining remote sensing, USDA Agricultural Census data, and state-reported cost-share, we’ve pulled together a county-level dataset that can serve as a baseline for comparison to track changes in Minnesota’s ag practices over the coming years.
The State of Minnesota`s Soil Health: How Many Farmers Are Doing No-Till, Cover Crops, and More
By Bailey Tangen and Anna Cates Tracking the use of practices like reduced tillage and cover crops that promote healthy soil is challenging but critical to gauge progress towards regional and state goals. By combining remote sensing, USDA Agricultural Census data, and state-reported cost-share, we’ve pulled together a county-level dataset that can serve as a baseline for comparison to track changes in Minnesota’s ag practices over the coming years.
The Science of Garden Soil Health: What You Need to Know to Keep Your Garden Growing
Beneath our feet lies a vibrant yet under-appreciated ecosystem. Far more complex than mere dirt, soil is a matrix of mineral particles, organic matter, living organisms, water, and air. Scientists have developed many measures for evaluating how well a particular piece of earth performs life-sustaining functions like regulating water, supporting plants and animals, filtering and buffering pollutants, and cycling nutrients.
Minnesota Springs are Getting Wetter. What’s at Stake for Farmers?
By Bailey Tangen and Anna Cates Signs of a healthy ecosystem in the field with soil health management (left), compared to signs of crusting and compaction in the plowed field (right). Climate change is projected to change the timing, frequency, and severity of spring precipitation in Minnesota, and farmers might notice those changes first.
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