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Through hands-on training from the world’s leading experts, Soil Health Academy participants learn how to increase profitability, build resiliency into the land, decrease input costs and improve nutrient density of food and agricultural products.

How to Stop Soil Erosion on Your Farm or Property Soil erosion can quietly remove one of the most valuable resources on ...
08/31/2026

How to Stop Soil Erosion on Your Farm or Property Soil erosion can quietly remove one of the most valuable resources on a farm or property: healthy topsoil. Wind, rainfall, runoff, bare ground, overgrazing, and excessive soil disturbance can carry away valuable soil, nutrients, and organic matter. So, how can we stop soil erosion? The most effective approach is to build healthy, resilient soil that can better withstand wind and water. Keeping soil covered, maintaining living roots, improving water infiltration, increasing plant diversity, and managing grazing appropriately can all help prevent erosion while improving overall soil health. What Causes Soil Erosion? Learn about how to prevent soil erosion with some of these techniques.

https://soilhealthacademy.org/how-to-stop-soil-erosion-on-your-farm-or-property/

The most useful soil test you own costs nothing and hangs in your shop.Before you spend a dollar on a lab test, spend 20...
08/31/2026

The most useful soil test you own costs nothing and hangs in your shop.

Before you spend a dollar on a lab test, spend 20 minutes with a spade.

Dig one hole in the field and one in the fencerow on the same soil type, then set them side by side.

Look at aggregate shape, root depth, worm channels and smell.

The Soil Health Institute points out that healthy aggregates tend to be rounder while degraded ones have sharp corners, and that residue sitting undecomposed for months is a sign the biology is struggling.

The fencerow is your control. It has been telling you the truth for decades.

The fastest way to make a cover crop pay is to put a mouth on it. Cover crops stop being an expense the day something ea...
08/27/2026

The fastest way to make a cover crop pay is to put a mouth on it.

Cover crops stop being an expense the day something eats them.

Practical Farmers of Iowa followed four cooperators grazing cereal rye between corn and soybeans this year.

Seed and establishment ran about $28 an acre. Grazing returned roughly $73 an acre, and the winter hay bill came down on top of that.

A South Dakota rotation study found similar direction, adding $17 an acre the first year and $44 the second.

Fewer than one in seven cattle operations with cropland were doing this as of 2017. That is a wide open door.

Grazing covers this fall? Tell us your mix and your stocking plan below ⬇️

08/25/2026

A couple weeks back, SHA brought farmers, ranchers, and land managers to Voss Farms in Paynesville, MN for a hands-on school in adaptive grazing, taught on the ground where Doug Voss actually runs his operation.

That's the whole idea. Not a conference room. Not a slide deck about somebody else's farm. A working operation, with the people who manage it standing in the middle of it answering questions.

Nobody left with a formula. That's not how this works. Adaptive grazing is a way of reading your land and responding to what it's telling you, and that looks different on every operation. What people leave with is the ability to see it.

Thanks to everyone who made the drive, and to the Voss family for opening up the farm.

08/24/2026

Every day grazed is a day of hay you did not feed.

The stockpile window is open right now and it closes fast.

Pick the paddock you want to graze in December, pull the livestock off it this month and take it down to a 3 to 4 inch stubble so what accumulates is new growth.

Maryland Extension recommends 40 to 60 pounds of nitrogen at that point. Wisconsin Extension puts the rest period at 60 to 80 days.

Tall fescue holds its quality through winter better than most, which is why Kentucky calls it the stockpiling grass.

Urea is four elements. Carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen. That is the whole bag. 🌿Nitrogen makes up 78% of the air abov...
08/20/2026

Urea is four elements. Carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen. That is the whole bag. 🌿

Nitrogen makes up 78% of the air above your field. The carbon, hydrogen and oxygen are in that same air and in the rain that falls on it. Every element you are paying for is already sitting on your place before the truck ever pulls in.

So the chemical company is not selling you nitrogen. They are selling you the work of capturing it.

You can capture those nutrients on the field, or you can pay someone else to capture them and haul them to you. Same nutrients. The difference is who does the work and who gets the bill.

That makes fertilizer a management line, not just a market line. You cannot control what urea costs this fall. You can control how much of it your ground captures and holds.

Living roots feed the biology that cycles nitrogen. Ground that takes water in keeps nutrients in the root zone instead of sending them down the ditch. Bare ground and compacted ground do the opposite. Same rainfall, same air, different management, different bill.

And it does not stop at nitrogen. The phosphorus, potassium and sulfur are already in your soil right now, locked up in forms your crop cannot reach. You paid for a lot of it once already. You can keep paying every spring, or you can build the system that makes it available.

Nature has been running this for a long time without a fertilizer rep.

Learn how your soil functions. Spend less. Keep more of it in your operation.

Where are you at with cutting N this year? Drop it below.

And that's a wrap! 🎉 The 3-Day Adaptive Grazing Academy has come to an end. A huge thank you to everyone who joined us ...
08/18/2026

And that's a wrap! 🎉

The 3-Day Adaptive Grazing Academy has come to an end. A huge thank you to everyone who joined us from various states, sharing invaluable insights!

Can't wait to see you all again soon!

Special shoutout:


&epantry

Beth, Isaac & Eli Voss 🙌

Wrapped up Day 2 of Grazing Academy with incredible insights! 🌱Everyone's out in the field and fully engaged, learning f...
08/15/2026

Wrapped up Day 2 of Grazing Academy with incredible insights! 🌱

Everyone's out in the field and fully engaged, learning from each other to enhance their skills.

Stay tuned for Day 3!

Day 1 of the Grazing Academy is in the books! 🌱Grazing enthusiasts from across states united for a day filled with learn...
08/13/2026

Day 1 of the Grazing Academy is in the books! 🌱

Grazing enthusiasts from across states united for a day filled with learning, idea exchanges, and shared experiences— all aimed at enhancing grazing practices and nurturing healthier land.

Can’t wait to see what the next two days have in store!

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