Participants in the Soil Health Partnership (SHP) are seeing improved organic matter and “a general uplift in their soil health” as a result of being in the program, according to Dr. Shefali Mehta, executive director of the SHP. The partnership is generating valuable data from farmers who are using sustainable farming practices in order to improve the health of their soil, said Dr. Mehta.

“We are moving out of that start-up mode,” said Dr. Mehta, “to a much more stable, established program.”

The goal of the program, she said, is to support farmer members of the SHP to be sure they come out of the program “in a much better place.”

“How can we be more effective with soil health,” Mehta said, “in a way that’s economically viable for our farmers?”