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Row crop farmers are beginning to focus more and more on improving soil health on their lands for long-term sustainability, but according to USDA soil health and grassland specialists, livestock producers can also implement soil health practices to improve their pastures.
In the Farmer’s Co-Operative Ditch Company (FCDC) project, a group of partners tackled the excessive amount of sediment and nutrients in the irrigation water delivered by the Co-Op.
Jeff and Bea Raths have worked with multiple partners on a conservation easement that protects their working ranch from development and helps to manage their grazinglands in a way that benefits that land, livestock, and wildlife.
Most people don’t look forward to spending time at their doctor’s office, but Dr. Ron Weiss’s office isn’t typical of most health care facilities. His practice, Ethos Health, is in the center of an organic fruit and vegetable farm in Long Valley, New Jersey.
Steep land and a short growing season? Not a problem for Jan Johnson, owner of Mill River Farm, a 32 acre certified-organic produce and livestock farm in New Marlborough, Massachusetts, in the heart of the Berkshire hills.
Improving pollinator habitat can be a team effort.
Monona County farmer Bo Fox is working with USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) to more efficiently graze his 100-head cow/calf herd and to help improve soil health on his farm.
The West Burlington non-profit urban farm Homestead 1839 is finding success adopting sustainable agricultural practices and using horticulture therapy to help community members on the path to recovery.
Location: Various Counties in Eastern Oregon
What do four no-till sugar beet growers have to say about how they got started, the challenges and opportunities they’ve seen, and advice for farmers considering making the change? Just try it.
