The Soil Health Partnership manages and improves soil health by challenging cooperating farmers on its demonstration and research farms to make farming changes beneficial to soil health and profitability. Hans Kok, a Soil Health Partnership field manager for 19 demonstration farms in Ohio, Indiana and Michigan, says this is done through the primary conservation practices of cover crops and reductions in the use tillage.
According to Kok, soils have been ignored for a long time.
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