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NRCS delivers science-based soil information to help farmers, ranchers, foresters, and other land managers effectively manage, conserve, and appraise their most valuable investment — the soil.

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Out of the long list of nature’s gifts to man, none is perhaps so utterly essential to human life as soil.

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