Entries by Rich Myers

Slump Test for Assessing Aggregate Stability in Agricultural Soils

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Healthy soils hold water and prevent nutrients from running off into surface water and groundwater. In this video, Lisa Blazure of the Pennsylvania Soil Health Coalition and NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist Lee Rinehart discuss the practices that contribute to healthy soils and demonstrate how to conduct a simple soil aggregate stability test during the Columbia […]

Soil Aggregation and Assessing Pasture Soil Structure with a Simple Field Test

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Soil aggregate stability is a measure of how well soil particles stick together and facilitate air and water movement in soils. In this video, NCAT Sustainable Agriculture Specialist Lee Rinehart discusses the practices that contribute to healthy soils and demonstrates how to conduct a simple soil aggregate stability test at Lands at Hillside Farms in […]

Episode 278. A Look at the Texas Soil Wealth Alliance, Part 2

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This episode of Voices from the Field is the second of a two-part series about a new project called the Texas Soil Wealth Alliance.   NCAT’s team on the project – Climate Smart Agriculture Coordinator Elise Haschke and Sustainable Agriculture Specialists Robert Maggiani and Darron Gaus – talk with others involved in the project. They discuss […]

Capturing Water and Reducing Floods: Can Healthy Soils Save Society Money?

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This discussion about the opportunity to maximize off-farm benefits of soil-health practices at the watershed scale was part of the National Center for Appropriate Technology’s second Soil Health Innovations Conference in March 2022. The panelists include: Dianna Bagnall, research soil health scientist at the Soil Health Institute Juli Obudzinski, sustainable agriculture policy consultant at the […]

Indigenous Perspectives on Soil Health and Water

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Before 1993, when Santa Clara Pueblo Indigenous scholar Gregory Cajete began to publish about what he referred to as Native Science, there had been no serious attempts to analyze and gather data regarding American Indian perceptions and cognition related to soil and water management and how those perceptions influenced indigenous practices and choices as they […]

Economics of Soil Health

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This discussion was part of the National Center for Appropriate Technology’s second Soil Health Innovations Conference in March of 2022. The panelists include: Adam Chappell (Speaker) Chappell Brothers Farm LLC Harry Greene (Speaker) Propagate, Chief Investment Officer Rex Dufour (Moderator) NCAT, Western Regional Director Propagate helps farmers, landowners, and service providers make regenerative agriculture work […]

Regenerative Practices to Reverse Desertification

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In this video, Alejandro Carrillo, a keynote speaker during the National Center for Appropriate Technology’s second Soil Health Innovations Conference, which was held in March 2022, talks about his experience building soil resilience by working with nature. Alejandro Carrillo is a consultant as along with his work at Las Damas Cattle Ranch. This video is […]

NCAT Soil for Water Project

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In this presentation NCAT’s Soil for Water staff explain how their project got started, what they’re trying to accomplish, what they’ve learned, why they choose to focus on peer-to-peer learning, and how attendees can participate and collaborate. The discussion was part of NCAT’s second Soil Health Innovations Conference, which was held in March 2022. The […]

Regenerative Research and Practices for Forests and Fields

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In this presentation, part of the National Center for Approptiate Technology’s second Soil Health Innovations Conference in March of 2022, Darren Yanke talks about his farm’s Rain Friendly Farming, sharing how they helped “transition our soils into the water absorbing monsters, they are today. Some of the practices we use include planting cover crops, planting […]

On-Farm Benefits of Healthy Soils

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This panel discussion from the National Center for Appropriate Technology’s second Soil Innovations Conference in March 2022, addresses the concrete benefits that healthy soils can bring to farms. The panelists include: · Christopher Grotegut, Farmer, Tierra de Esperanza · Tommy Bottoms, Farmer, Timothy and Viguie Farming and El Molino Farms · Justin Duncan, Sustainable Agriculture […]