Jay Fuhrer

Jay Fuhrer

Jay Fuhrer, retired NRCS soil health specialist and conservationist at the Menoken Farm demonstration farm in Menoken, N.D., wrote the 5 principles of soil health.

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Soil Health Principles

Soil Health Principle 5: Livestock Integration

Diverse grazing ruminant animals use fermentation, saliva, microbes and the carbon cycle to complete their life functions and boost the soil food web naturally
Imagine if we could invent a way to distribute aerobic and anaerobic microbes effectively and economically across our agricultural landscapes: something mobile and capable of processing plant material into nutritional protein.
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Soil Health Principles

Soil Health Principle 4: Continual Living Plant

Every green plant is a carbon inlet & provides the microbial world with carbon sugar exudates. Cover crops can check several soil health principles simultaneously.

The first time we look at cover crops we usually question the seed cost, labor, equipment, time, water, nutrient, and even the social acceptance of partners, neighbors, and friends. 


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