Measuring soil health in the Upper Midwest to improve water quality
2023-07-28
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Measuring soil health in the Upper Midwest to improve water quality
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2023-07-28
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The Minnesota Office for Soil Health (MOSH) collaborated with six university partners, six external partners, and 27 farmer collaborators to learn what soil health looks like in Minnesota. Soil Health Management Systems (SHMS) have been shown across the country to hold tremendous potential for simultaneously supporting water quality and agricultural productivity. However, adoption of practices that build soil health have been limited in the northern climates of the Dakotas, Minnesota, and neighboring states where cold soils and shorter growing seasons create special challenges to using cover crops and minimal tillage. To increase adoption, farmers and their advisors need to network with other farmers to work out the challenges of building SHMS, and they need more data from their region to provide relevant guidance and support research on how to measure and interpret soil health changes.
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NRCS Conservation Innovation Grant NR183A750008G011
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. (2023). Measuring soil health in the Upper Midwest to improve water quality. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/255600.
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