LSP Soil Health Hubs

Environmental Sustainability: Birds, Biology & Balance

4th in a Series on LSP's Soil Health Hubs

Some sins against the land can be masked over with deep tillage, chemical inputs, and, when all else fails, moving dirt around with heavy equipment. But you can’t fool a good soil probe. For Mike and Jennifer Rupprecht, that revelation came when a retired soil scientist sunk his equipment deep into a couple spots on…  Read More

Economic Sustainability: Financial Field-Talk

3rd in a Series on LSP's Soil Health Hubs

On a misty June morning in northeastern Iowa, Nikki Meyer led half-a-dozen farmers down a field road through a thick stand of oaks and other hardwoods. The going was tough — the road dropped 400 vertical feet in less than half-a-mile, and a half-inch rain earlier had made the footing greasy with mud. Sensing that…  Read More