*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE* *for sustainable agriculture and land management* Dear Subscribers, Please see herebelow two websites with articles related to the soil health and Conservation Agriculture. Thank you Dr. Don Reicosky for sharing. *Amir Kassam * *Moderator* *Global CA-CoP* e-mail: [log in to unmask] URL: http://www.fao.org/conservation-agriculture *Conservation Agriculture is an ecosystem approach to regenerative sustainable agriculture and land management based on the practical application of context-specific and locally adapted three interlinked principles of: (i) Continuous no or minimum mechanical soil disturbance (no-till seeding/planting and weeding, and minimum soil disturbance with all other farm operations including harvesting); (ii) permanent maintenance of soil mulch cover (crop biomass, stubble and cover crops); and (iii) diversification of cropping system (economically, environmentally and socially adapted rotations and/or sequences and/or associations involving annuals and/or perennials, including legumes and cover crops), along with other complementary good agricultural production and land management practices. Conservation Agriculture systems are present in all continents, involving rainfed and irrigated systems including annual cropland systems, perennial systems, orchards and plantation systems, agroforestry systems, crop-livestock systems, pasture and rangeland systems, organic production systems and rice-based systems. Conservation Tillage, Reduced Tillage and Minimum Tillage are not Conservation Agriculture, and nor is No-Till on its own* (more at: http://www.fao.org/conservation-agriculture). ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Don Reicosky <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2019 at 21:56 Subject: Excellent articles related to the soil health and Conservation Agriculture 2 websites with good information on CA/soil health principles farmers need to understand. https://www.agriculture.com/news/12-soil-health-takeaways-from-the-inaugural-dirt-workshop *12 SOIL HEALTH TAKEAWAYS FROM THE INAUGURAL DIRT WORKSHOPBOOST SOIL CARBON WITH COVER CROPS, REDUCED TILLAGE, AND LIVESTOCK.* By Bill Spiegel https://www.agriculture.com/crops/cover-crops/soil-health-digest-20-things-every-farmer-needs-to-know *SOIL HEALTH DIGEST: 20 THINGS EVERY FARMER NEEDS TO KNOW* By Bill Spiegel, Megan Vollstedt, Gil Gullickson -- Don Reicosky Morris, MN USA 56267 e-mail: [log in to unmask] Cell Phone 320-287-2314 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CA-Cop-L list, click the following link: &*TICKET_URL(CA-Cop-L,SIGNOFF);