Cover cropping involves growing various plant varieties between cash crop rotations to ensure continuous soil coverage. This practice improves soil water infiltration, builds soil organic matter, ...

Every county in Ohio has one of these organizations. They were created out of the 1941 Ohio Soil Conservation District ...

Conservation practices are readily available for U.S. farmers to implement, but financial roadblocks commonly stymie their adoption. A study done in 2020 in cooperation between the Soil Health ...

LIMA — Through its regenerative farm, The Ohio State University-Lima has been at the forefront when it comes to research into best practices for soil and water management in agriculture. On Thursday, ...

Building trust in food begins with empowering farmers through one of the largest and most diverse conservation- and sustainability-focused public-private partnerships in our nation’s history: ...

Viva Farms recently finished From Farmers to Soil Health Managers, a five-year project that focused on conservation practices ...

This Market Intel article is the second in a five-part series highlighting agricultural ecosystem credit markets and the opportunities and challenges they present farmers, as well as the policy levers ...

Sustainable inputs and conservation practices improve soil health. (Natural Resources Conservation Service photo) Editor’s note: This is the fourth installment of a five-part series, “Getting Grounded ...

Soil erosion in agriculture is the loss of fertile topsoil by wind, water, or tillage, significantly reducing crop yields, ...