10/05/2026
Your local Conservation Technician here! Our partners at MSU Extension Upper Peninsula are putting on a Pasture Walk focusing on building soil health October 6th.
The pasture walk will focus on management strategies to improve soil health. During drought, healthy soils allow for more rapid water infiltration and possess greater water holding capacity.
Frank Wardynski and Kable Thurlow, Michigan State University Extension educators, we'll be discussing a project they will be working on for the next two years. The project involves working with cooperative farmers to demonstrate management practices that will improve soil health and improve resiliency to drought.
In addition to discussing the project they will also be demonstrating the message of determining healthy soils with water filtration and holding capacity, compaction, and the shovel test looking for soil aggregation.
Hope to see you there!
