Stephanie McLain (NRCS State Soil Health Specialist) provides an overview of the soil health resource concerns including how to evaluate them. This session also includes a brief introduction to the In Field Soil Health Assessments.

In this online training, Samuel Porter (Economist, NRCS MN) and Keith Olander (Executive Director, AgCentric) cover the costs and economic considerations of row crop production in Minnesota. Using FINBIN data, they examine current and recent shifts in input and output prices, farm scale, and different production systems. Intended for NRCS staff and partners, this training highlights how conservation decision making fits in the greater economic context of agricultural production.

In this webinar, Josh Beniston, NRCS Regional Soil Health Specialist covering urban areas, presents an overview of soil health in the context of urban soils. Josh walks through the aspects of urban soils may be different than rural agricultural soils and discusses the additional questions and observations that should be addressed for conservation planning in urban soils. The information in the presentation follows the topics that are presented in a new series of technical notes from the NRCS Soil Health Division. Specific topics in the presentation include: