MILLION ACRE CHALLENGE

Through healthy soil, The Million Acre Challenge builds common ground between farming, profitability, resilience, and the environment. We believe farmers are the experts and that soil health is a journey. We encourage curiosity and facilitate exploration. We connect farmers with each other through our Soil Health to Go! lunch & learns, field days, on-farm demonstrations and advanced farmer networks. We also provide up-to-date scientific information and research, a soil health benchmarking study, and financial analysis to promote soil and ecosystem health. We engage producers, farm service providers, and consumers to craft policies to incentivize and support healthy soils practices... The Million Acre Challenge helps Maryland farmers build soil health, increase farm profitability, and improve water quality - while making farms resilient and active in the face of climate change. Our farmer-focused collaborative uses soil health science, economics, education, and incentives to achieve..

Also known as: The Million Acre Challenge