Land Management

Learn 

• NRCS soil health practices
• American Farmland Trust “A Farmers Guide to Soil Health Economics”
• Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Publications

Apply

• Contact your local NRCS Agent for technical and financial assistance implementing regenerative farming practices
• Take the Colorado Department of Agriculture STAR (Saving Tomorrow's Agricultural Resources) test to determine your farm/ranch soil health rating
• Contact  In-Riches (The Integrated Rocky Mountain-region Innovation Center for Health Soils) for resources and consulting on how to implement soil health practices

Monitor

• SoilCarbon Coalition focuses on promoting soil health and carbon sequestration through education and collaborative monitoring
• Citizen Soil Health Project empowers individuals through citizen science initiatives to monitor and enhance soil health
• COMET-Farms is a virtual farm/ranch carbon and greenhouse accounting system

Resources

We do not recommend or endorse any of these resources. We provide these for information purposes only. 

Soil Testing Lab

• RegenAg: Laboratory services focused on regenerative agriculture
• WardLabs: Full service agriculture testing facility with soil health assessment
• WeldLabs: Local testing facility with various soil testing packages
• CSU Soil Testing: Local testing facility and includes fertilizer recommendations in soil testing packages

Cover Crops

• Dryland Cover Cop Resources
• Cover Cop Seed Mixes
  • Buffalo Brand Seed Company: Provides various companion and cover crop mixes
  • Pawnee Buttes Seed Inc: Provides numerous cover cop and grass seed mixes depending on need

Monitoring

• Ag Weather Monitoring
• Drought Monitoring

Hail

• Hail Know Nebraska Crop Watch

Changing Climate

• Crop Scenarios; learn about how to prepare your farm and ranch operations for increasing effects of climate change.