“Probing Our Country’s Soil Health”

A new public-private partnership for improving how soil health can help with management decisions is being conducted in the United States. The project is called “Probing Our Country’s Soil Health”.  They are looking for farmers and ranchers to participate. In fact, the project is looking for 420 fields in Texas with up to 210 participants – just in Texas. The only restriction is that you be a farmer – sorry gardeners, just farmers should apply!

Organic Farmers should jump at this chance to get free soil health testing including someone to actually take the samples! At least ~$1200 in value……

Participating landowners will receive: 

• Compensation for your time (~ 1 hour) for helping
• A personalized soil health report of your fields. The value of this lab work (at no cost to you) is about a thousand dollars per field.
• A copy of a book called “Probing Our Country’s Soil Health”. This will be a hard-copy photo book illustrating soil health across the country and the outcomes to this project.

To learn more about this project, click on Probing Our Country’s Soil Health to see a short video:

If interested in participating, you will need to:

• Sign up for a one-hour Zoom Meeting where a facilitator will lead you through a management survey for 2 or 3 fields.
• Grant access to fields for hand-probe soil sampling 2 or 3 sampling sites from each field. Normally this will happen 3-6 months after the survey; you will be notified beforehand.

To enroll as a landowner participant, click on this booking page link to schedule an appointment:

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