Soil Health Assessment: Recommendations to NRCS

An outcomes-based approach to soil health is the key to connecting farmers and ranchers to a range of economic incentives that propel soil health practices. Yet gaps remain in establishing a consistent soil sampling methodology and lab calibration protocol that will ensure the data collected is reliable and interoperable, and can ladder up to create change at scale.

This week, Land Core submitted a memo of recommendations recently prepared by Land Core and submitted to NRCS-CIG regarding the implementation of the On-Farm Trials and Soil Health Demo Trials.

The memo was prepared with the technical advice and support of our partners at Soil Life Services LLC, informed by their work at UC Davis.