Ohio Soil Health Week

Show Your Support for an Ohio Soil Health Week

WE THE UNDERSIGNED ask the Ohio legislature to take action today to ensure that healthy soils are prioritized and good soil health practices are supported, encouraged, and incentivized.

Soil is Ohio's most valuable natural resource and is every farmer, rancher, and land steward's greatest legacy. Although soil is essential to our communities, economy, climate, nutrition, and farm production, there's little awareness of the importance of soil health. Agriculture is central to Ohio's economy and our soils are at the base of it all. In the face of Ohio's unique challenges, good soil health practices can improve water quality while also helping farmers and ranchers with long-term profitability and resilience. Farmers are already having to adapt to more frequent extreme weather events and are interested in improving soil health to help hold more water during droughts and improve infiltration during heavy rain events.

Be it, therefore, understood that we ask the Ohio legislature to enact the OHIO SOIL HEALTH WEEK BILL, a declaration policy that would designate a weeklong celebration of soil health with outreach and education to reach both within and beyond the agriculture community and raise awareness around Ohio's most valuable natural resource. OHIO SOIL HEALTH WEEK would occur annually on the second full week in November. The Wednesday of that week would be designated as "Ohio Soil Health Day," honoring the late David Brandt, an Ohio soil health trailblazer, sustainable agriculture advocate, and “godfather of Soil Health,” whose birthday falls that week.

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