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Free webinar to focus on soil health principles needed to build soil resilience.

Jane Moorman

September 1, 2020

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Worsening drought conditions and climate change are making enhanced soil resilience an important tool to withstand extreme environmental conditions and to sustain agricultural production.

To help preserve and rejuvenate degrading soils, New Mexico State University (NMSU) Cooperative Extension Service is hosting a two-day soil health webinar, Sept. 22 and Sept. 23, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.,  for producers, agriculture support professionals, Extension educators, and other New Mexico stakeholders.

“Utilizing soil health principles can build the needed soil resilience that will enable producers to remain profitable in the face of weather uncertainties,” said John Idowu, NMSU Extension agronomist. “The workshop will address fundamental aspects of soil health as well as applied soil management for cropland and rangeland.”

Resource persons from NMSU College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resource Conservation Service, and private organizations will discuss soil health assessment and management.

Topics to be covered include:

  • the physical, chemical and biological soil properties in relation to soil health management

  • cover cropping

  • crop rotation

  • livestock integration into cropping systems

  • tillage management

  • organic amendments

  • grazing/pasture management

  • cropland/rangeland assessment.

Registration is free for all participants. Pre-register at https://rsvp.nmsu.edu/rsvp/soilhealth2 to receive the agenda and the Zoom link for the workshop.

The workshop is sponsored by the Healthy Soil Program initiative coordinated by the New Mexico Department of Agriculture.

The Healthy Soil Program was enacted by the New Mexico Legislature to provide education on soil health assessment and management in New Mexico.

Source: is NMSU, which is solely responsible for the information provided and is wholly owned by the source. Informa Business Media and all its subsidiaries are not responsible for any of the content contained in this information asset.

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