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Economics: The most cost-effective way to get started with soil health
The most cost-effective way to get started with soil health is to pick a small step that makes sense for your own farm.
Keep it simple and don’t worry about changing the whole farm at once. Implement the small step and then identify the next small step.
This is how it went for George Sill. He started with the small step of reducing tillage on sandy hilltops. No-tilling the hilltops helped him gain the confidence to expand no-till to the rest of the farm.
Through an evolving process that continues today, George has put together a soil health system that reduces his expenses, sustains or improves yield, and takes better care of his land.
In this video George tells us how he gradually put the economic pieces together and shifted resources toward a different style of farming.​​
George Sill
Video title: Small steps lead to fuel and fertilizer savings
