Governor Cuomo Announces $4 Million to Help New York Farms Address Impacts of Climate Change
Awards Will Help 80 Farms Reduce their Environmental Footprints and Prepare for Extreme Weather Events
Applications available for AEM-Leopold Conservation Award
Applications for the New York AEM-Leopold Conservation Award are now being accepted.
Due by 4/1/21
Northeast SARE invites Partnership Grant proposals
The Partnership Grant program funds projects that work in direct partnership with farmers to encourage innovative solutions to current sustainability challenges related to production, marketing and/or farmer and community well-being in Northeast farming and food systems.
Integrated biochar research: A roadmap
How can biochar mitigate climate change & improve soil health and land productivity? Researchers explore benefits and propose a path forward for this technology.
Soil Health News and Research Roundup
Using Soil to Make Art | Assessing Soil Health – A Series | Carbon-chomping soil bacteria | SoiLEX, a global database on national soil legislation | Soil degradation costs U.S. corn farmers a half-billion dollars every year | No-till practices in vulnerable areas significantly reduce soil erosion
Presentation by Kirsten Kurtz – Soil Health: A holistic approach to managing soil for resilience
Kirsten Kurtz, manager of the Cornell Soil Health Lab, discusses the Comprehensive Assessment of Soil Health (CASH) test and covers general soil health management concepts.
New “Soils Revealed” platform puts soil carbon modelling at your fingertips
Soils Revealed is an interactive map that helps policymakers, NGOs, researchers, and land managers visualize ongoing carbon losses from our soil as well as the powerful potential to reverse that trend.
State-funded study provides soil health guidelines for New York agriculture
Healthy soils play a central role in supporting sustainable crop production, water quality and climate change mitigation. While quality standards have been developed to protect water and air, there hasn’t been enough documented information to develop similar parameters for maintaining soil health.
Soil Health Sessions at the 2021 Empire State Producers Expo
Sessions organized by Ryan Maher with Cornell Small Farms Program covering soil health are scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 12.
New imaging method views soil carbon at near-atomic scales
The Earth’s soils contain more than three times the amount of carbon than is found in the atmosphere, but the processes that bind carbon in the soil are still not well understood.