According to the Soil Health Institute, data collected and analyzed across 100 farms in 9 states shows that soil health management systems increased net income for 85% of those growing corn and 88% of those growing soybeans.

Addressing a gathering of the Dodge County Farmers for Healthy Soil & Healthy Water, Russell Hedrick of Hickory, N.C., shares a presentation on the impacts on water quality that can be realized by utilizing regenerative ag practices, such as growing cover crops, reducing soil disturbance, maintaining soil armor, and integrating livestock.

A recent research project discusses potential barriers in getting farmers in Texas to adopt soil health practices. But here’s what we already know.

A research economist at Texas A&M University and a soil scientist with the Soil Health Institute researched why Texas producers choose to, or not to, adopt soil conservation and soil health measures and discuss what they found.

Evidence of the economic benefits of healthy soil will help farmers embrace conservation on more land, sooner.

No-tiller and Practical Farmers of Iowa board member Nathan Anderson was once asked this question. Read on to see his answer, and find out more about soil health payoffs spotlighted at a Capitol Hill hearing this week.