The 6 Principles of Soil Health
Learn the six foundational principles that reduce risk and build profitable farms: keeping soil covered, maintaining living roots, minimizing disturbance, maximizing diversity, and integrating livestock. These practices work across all operations and conditions.
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0:00 Is it the best of times or the worst of?
0:02 Times no one knows for sure but what we.
0:05 Do know is that for Farmers this time is
0:07 Filled with uncertainty and risk in.
0:10 These times it is comforting to know.
0:12 That we can always turn to God's.
0:13 Creation to find the answers when we.
0:17 Systems and we apply these principles to.
0:19 Soil health we not only reduce risk but
0:22 We leave the land a little bit better.
0:24 For those who will follow in our footsteps, so to minimize risk and increase profitability: keep the soil covered, keep a living root growing as often as possible, minimize the amount of physical and chemical disturbance, maximize the diversity of plants and biology, and properly integrate livestock. These principles are for all times.