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Talking Soil Health on Public Radio

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Healthy soils can reduce soil erosion and nutrient runoff, and increase stormwater infiltration, reduce stream flooding, and improve groundwater base flows.

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Smart Talk About Soil Health

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Join the conversation as WITF “Smart Talk” host Scott LaMar talks with Lisa Blazure, Stroud Water Research Center soil health coordinator, and two Lancaster County farmers about the numerous benefits of improving agricultural soil health.

[WEBINAR SERIES] No-Till and Cover Crop Implementation Online Education Program

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We are inviting public, private, and non-profit agricultural service providers to participate in a five-part, interactive, webinar training series emphasizing no-till and cover crop implementation that will train agricultural service providers to better support farmers who are preparing for and implementing in-field soil health practices.

Reducing Crop Loss, Saving Money and Time, and Stewarding Your Land

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Farms that have whole-farm financial and yield analyses completed often find that cropping marginal land costs more money than it produces.

[WEBINAR SERIES] Your Land & the Long View: Working With Farmers to Protect Your Investment

800 450 Stroud Water Research Center

Join Steve Groff, the Cover Crop Coach, and Sarah Everhart, with the University of Maryland’s Agriculture Law Education Initiative, to learn how you and your tenant farmer can work together to improve the soil health on your farm.

Transforming Water Quality in the Sharitz Run Headwaters of Brandywine Creek

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This Watershed Renaissance Initiative grant will enable Stroud Water Research Center to implement extensive watershed restoration projects designed to capture and control excess water and sediment production from agricultural hillslopes.…

Meet Lisa Blazure, Soil Health Coordinator

800 450 Stroud Water Research Center

Blazure brings to Stroud Water Research Center a deep understanding of how improving agricultural soil health can result in healthier streams.

Improving Soil Health for Climate Change Resiliency

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Jim Harbach has practiced no-till farming for 30 years and has documented how his soils can better withstand the extreme weather swings associated with climate change.

Deep purple fruit on an elderberry bush.

A Movement Grows to Help Farmers Reduce Pollution and Turn a Profit

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An innovative program is showing farmers how to plant cash crops in buffer zones to help stabilize stream banks and clean up waterways.

How Streams Work and the Role of Forests

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Understanding how streams work and the importance of trees to streams is fundamental to engaging landowners and decision makers.