Thank you for your interest in improving your farm's soil health through changes in management practices and strategies. 

This evaluation tool will help you understand your strengths and weaknesses as a soil health manager. When you've finished, you will receive a personalized report that will show you how your management compares to national and local soil health superstars [pilot tool: this feature is still under development].

Questions are separated into 14 categories. Each category will be scored separately, and a total weighted score will also be calculated.

When answering these questions, keep in mind a set of fields that are managed similarly. You may need to answer the survey more than once if you have fields with significantly different management regimes. 
 
Note that these questions all ask about your practices as a farmer. They do not evaluate actual soil health condition. Other tools are available to help you estimate your fields' soil health.

Your responses are anonymous. Collected data will be stripped of any personal identifying information, aggregated, and may be used in reports or publications.
 
The content of this tool is heavily based on the publication, "Soil Health in field and forage crop production," by Sjoerd Duiker, Joel C. Myers, and Lisa C. Blazure. The project team also includes Nevin Dawson and Travis Martin.
 
 
 
 
 

This material is based upon work supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, through the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program under subaward number ONE16-282c and NEUMD17-001.

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