
ATSWCD and USDA-NRCS joins other organizations, including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to celebrate World Soil Day on Thursday, December 5 and throughout the year.
"Stop Soil Erosion, Save Our Future" is designed to promote awareness on the importance of sustaining healthy ecosystems and human well-being by addressing the increasing challenges in soil management, and raise the profile of healthy soil by encouraging governments, organizations, communities and individuals around the world to engage in proactively improving soil health.
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Cargill, Soil Health Institute to Study Economics of Soil Health
Management practices that improve soil health can be good for the farm and the environment, but farmers need information on economics when deciding whether to adopt these practices. To address this critical issue, Cargill and the Soil Health Institute have announced a new partnership to assess, demonstrate and communicate the economics of soil health management systems across North America.


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https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/main/tx/soils/health/
https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/main/national/soils/health/

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We are pleased to announce the premiere of Cotton & Covers, a Healthy Soils for Sustainable Cotton video series. The series follows three Southeastern cotton producers as they discuss their individual journeys to build profitable soil health management systems on their farms. Each producer is a mentor to other farmers in our soil health training program, working with neighbors to expand the knowledge of soil health systems and to overcome barriers to adoption.
The series features Sonny Price from Dillon, South Carolina; Zeb Winslow from Scotland Neck, North Carolina; and Burton Heatwole from Millen, Georgia. The cotton producers discuss why they decided to explore soil health promoting practices and the benefits they’ve discovered as they experimented with reduced tillage, increased cover crop species diversity, and livestock grazing.
New videos will be made available weekly through September on the Soil Health Training webpage. We invite you to watch the first episode today:
The video series is part of the Healthy Soils for Sustainable Cotton project, which provides farmer-focused education and training events delivered by Soil Health Institute scientists, partnering with local soil health technical specialists and farmer mentors who have implemented successful soil health management systems. The project aims to increase the adoption of soil health management systems among cotton producers while documenting environmental and economic benefits.
Healthy Soils for Sustainable Cotton is supported through the generosity of the Wrangler® brand, the VF Corporation Foundation and the Walmart Foundation. For more information about the project and access to the webinar series, visit https://soilhealthinstitute.org/soil-health-training/.
