When it comes to adding carbon to the soil, all cover crops don’t perform equally, according to a team of researchers at Penn State University whose new study revealed the disparity for the first time.
A 2022 Environmental Defense Fund report offers a bold but achievable roadmap for how farms, ranches, and forests improve its carbon footprint.
Noble Research Institution is focusing on regenerative ranching. The goal? Build healthy soils, better landscapes, and improve ranchers’ bottom line.
As harvest kicks off, the American Soybean Association is placing soil at the center of all things social media through their campaign #SoilSeptember. Much like their previous campaign #SoyOnWater, this initiative will highlight the sustainable practices that growers implement to protect soil health.
In case anyone was wondering, farmers are still out there soiling their undies – all in the name of science and soil conservation. This week, the conservancy’s first “Soil Your Undies” results were released from the Saginaw Watershed Farmer Network Field Day at WMW Bierlein Farms in Michigan.
Oftentimes the “disaster” farmers face is a degraded soil that has occurred through management that does not foster soil biology and soil function.
Conservation practices for farmers and ranchers can deliver economic rewards, in addition to improving soil health on our land.
Soil, its health, or lack of it, its loss or regeneration, as in the past, is again at the center of global mass migrations, hunger, malnutrition, economic collapse, and climate change.
Research on biodynamic methods, albeit limited, have mixed results and there is nothing definitive for any part of this production method.
If farmers can get paid for an ecosystem service of carbon sequestration, while improving their soil’s ability for a greater return on investment, why not?