South Dakota Soil Health Coalition board chairman Shawn Freeland leads a cover crop grazing exercise during the 2023 Soil Health School. Freeland will host the 2024 West River Soil Health School, June 26 to 27, at his Dry Creek Beef Farm and Ranch near Caputa, South Dakota. (Courtesy photo.)

Coalition plans additional Soil Health School for West River

Tom Vilsack (Courtesy photo.)

Vilsack marks centennial of Gila Wilderness

Photo courtesy of Soil Health Partnership.

Coalition plans additional Soil Health School

Cotton and grain crops will be discussed during the Jan. 17-18 Red River Crops Conference in Altus, Oklahoma. (Texas A&M AgriLife photo by Laura McKenzie.)

Cotton gets in on regenerative agriculture opportunities with national partnership

The Essentials of Regenerative Ranching program gives producers the hands-on experience and tools they need to monitor and improve the health of their soil. (Photo by Katie McGuire, Noble Research Institute.)

Noble receives $295,000 Greenacres grant

Closing keynote speaker, Cristine Morgan, chief scientific officer, The Soil Health Institute discussed measuring and evaluating soil health at Soil Health U, Jan. 18 in Salina, Kansas. (Journal photo by Kylene Scott.)

Morgan explains soil health basics at Soil Health U 

Farmland conservation practices can include windbreaks. (File photo courtesy of University of Nebraska)

How to have conversations about conservation on leased land

  • By Linda Geist │ University of Missouri Extension
Indentations into tilled soil from a tractor tire and planter.

Accounting for soil wetness prior to conducting farm operations to minimize compaction