Soil Health for Non-Operator Land Owners
Webinar Details
When:
Apr 11, 2017 2:00 pm US/Eastern
Length: 01:01 (hh:mm)
Advance Registration NOT required.
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Presenter(s):
- Jennifer Filipiak, Associate Midwest Director, American Farmland Trust
CEU Credits/Certificate Offered:
- Certificate of Participation
- Conservation Planner (CP) - 1 hour Conservation Planning Credit
- Society for Range Management (SRM) - 1 hour SRM Credit
Virtual Event Format:
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This webinar will focus on educating non-operator land owners on the benefits improving soil health have to increase the value of their land, and that it takes a solid working relationship between the landowner and farmer (often requiring changes in leasing structures) to obtain changes in soil health.
The American Farmland Trust views soil as being essential to supporting human life and increasing soil carbon as the primary productive component of topsoil. To do this farmers/ranchers must adopt soil health management systems that include conservation practices and activities that follow the soil health principles NRCS is advocating: minimize disturbance, maximize diversity, keep living roots growing and maintain residue cover. To do this will require a commitment from non-operator owners, who own nearly 40% of America’s agricultural lands (2012 USDA Ag Census). Non-operator landowners need to have an understanding of the benefits of soil health in order to encourage their farmers/ranchers to follow soil health management principles and work with them as they transition existing practices. Building soil health is a long term endeavor, so the landowner must be engaged for the tenant farmer to be successful. This webinar will discuss efforts that the AFT is using to encourage non-operator owners to improve soil health through long term leasing, innovative soil health evaluation methods and placing value on the aesthetics of many soil health activities.
This webinar is presented by the USDA NRCS Soil Health Division.
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