Resource Category: Research

Our report is the most comprehensive review of direct-market vegetable farm finances to date.

What are the soil samples, field management records, and first-hand experiences from 100+ farms telling us about soil health?

Starting or growing a creamery enterprise can be a promising strategy for realizing financial viability in a challenging market. It’s also a big investment and can hold significant risk.

Per dollar spent, improving agricultural practices is one of our best investments toward clean and safe water.

This worksheet is a starting point for benchmarking your pastured livestock farm’s land and feed efficiency.

What would it take to make pastured systems the mainstream model of animal agriculture? And how might scaling up affect land use and the environment?

Through our Soil Health Benchmark Study, we’re discovering soil health problems farmers are facing. During this webinar, we review several common soil health challenges and explore how farmers are working to fix them.

A vegetable farmer grapples with improving soil health on her persistently wet fields.

We explore how a row crop farm could utilize cover crops to remediate the damaging effects wet weather has had on its soil aggregate stability.

A farmer considers how he can improve efficiency—and therefore profit—on his third-generation pastured livestock farm.

During this webinar, we’ll explain how you can participate in our Soil Health Benchmark Study, which will help you not only implement more sustainable soil management techniques but also maximize yields and profits.

They say “What gets measured, gets managed.” Given that there is a lot to manage on a working farm, effective record-keeping tools are essential to the success of any farm business.

Can soil health influence the nutritional value of produce?

Farmers collaborate to troubleshoot stagnant organic matter levels.

Excessive phosphorus has negative consequences for crop yields and the environment.

Learn about our Soil Health Benchmark Study and how you can participate.