Videos
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Soil Health Principles – Rick Haney
Grazing Cover Crops and Benefits for Livestock Operations – Gabe Brown
Soil Health Principles – Jill Clapperton
Soil Health Principles – Ray Archuleta
Soil health lessons in a minute: benefits of no-till farming
Soil health lessons in a minute: soil stability test
The Science of Soil Health: Compaction
The Science of Soil Health: What Happens When You Till?
Worms At Work – 20 Days Time Lapse Of Vermicomposting
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Cover Crops
Midwest Cover Crop Council website
Practical Farmers of Iowa website
Managing Cover Crops Profitably – download the book or order a copy
Economic Value of Cover Crops article
NRCS Cover Crop Economics Tool
Experts Talk Soil Health: NRCS
Landowners Resources
The Landowner’s Guide to Sustainable Farm Leasing
Value of Soil Erosion to the Landowner
Conservation Choices – explanation of practices from NRCS
![There are many benefits to planting cover crops including reducing erosion, increasing organic matter, reducing compaction, improving nutrient cycling, and providing food for beneficial soil microorganisms. With short planting windows […]](https://allamakeeswcd.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/aarik_deering_drill2-36x36.jpg "Interseeding Cover Crops"){kind=small}
![If you stop by the Waukon NRCS office, you’ll notice a few less people around. On July 31, 2019, Barb Hanson and Tom Duvel retired from the USDA-NRCS. Barb had […]](https://allamakeeswcd.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/BarbTom_retired-36x36.png "Barb Hanson and Tom Duvel Retire"){kind=small}
![Earthworms are well-known, but we don’t often think about what they do for our soils. A large proportion of soil passes through the guts of earthworms. Earthworms eat microorganisms, but […]](https://allamakeeswcd.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/worm_holes-36x36.png "Earthworm Channels"){kind=small}
![The Allamakee SWCD awarded 5 scholarships this year, each amounting at $500. Four of the winners were from the Allamakee Community School District and one winner was from the Postville […]](https://allamakeeswcd.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2019_scholarship_winners-36x36.png "Scholarship Winners"){kind=small}
![A Wisconsin farmer is improving soil health and fertility on cropland he farms across the state border near Waukon, Iowa. He added winter wheat to his rotation, followed by a […]](https://allamakeeswcd.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/diverse_cover_crop-36x36.png "Diverse Cover Crop Following Wheat Harvest"){kind=small}
