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Soil Science | Natural Resources Conservation Service

Farmer and agronomist discuss how to improve soil quality.

NRCS delivers science-based soil information to help farmers, ranchers, foresters, and other land managers effectively manage, conserve, and appraise their most valuable investment — the soil.

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Photo of Hugh Hammond Bennett.

Out of the long list of nature’s gifts to man, none is perhaps so utterly essential to human life as soil.

Hugh Hammond Bennett

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