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Maryland Department of Agriculture
Soil health demo in a soil pit

Conservation training videos and resources

MDA's Office of Resource Conservation provides conservation training on a variety of soil health and natural resource topics​. The following training videos are currently available. Please check back often for new offerings.

Training videos

Demonstration of Maryland Soil Health Card 

Watch video on YouTube (19:59)

Join NRCS Soil Scientist Annie Rossi-Gill for an overview of Maryland's updated Soil Health Card. ​​​

Station 1: Soil Pit: Perennial Cover

Watch video on YouTube (18:27)

Phil Clements, Soil Scientist for the Southern Maryland region, discusses the soil health benefits of perennial cover crops.

Station 2: Soil Pit: Annual Cover

Watch video on YouTube (13:40)

​NRCS Soil Scientist Annie Rossi-Gill reviews the soil health benefits​ of annual cover.

Station 3: Cover Crop Rate Trials

Watch video on YouTube (27:59)

David Kidwell Slak, Manager of the NRCS Plant Materials Center, discusses cover crop rate trials.

Station 4: Equipment Demonstrations

Watch video on YouTube (27:35)​

R. Jay Uglansky, resource conservationist with NRCS, showcases different types of seeding ​equipment and discusses planting green.  

Station 5: Northeast Cover Crop Council Program and Research Overviews ​

Watch video on YouTube (27:24) ​

Victoria Ackroyd, Program Manager for the Northeast Cover Crop Council, provides an overview of the program's species selector​ tool.​

Training links

Contact

Office Address
50 Harry S. Truman Parkway
Annapolis, MD 21401