Soil Health Training

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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

Maryland Association of Soil Conservation Districts

Contact

Office of Resource Conservation

Alisha Mulkey

Resource Conservation - Program Planning & Evaluation

Email: [email protected]
Main: 410-841-5873

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