Encouraging adoption and maintenance of soil health practices.
The Soil Health Information Platform (SHIP) will encourage further adoption and maintenance of soil health building practices among U.S. Corn Belt farmers by creating a farmer-centered and accessible research platform to help farmers make efficient soil decisions for their individual operations.
This project is a collaboration with the University of Missouri Soil Health Assessment Center (SHAC) and is funded by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture – Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (NIFA-AFRI) through a Sustainable Agricultural Systems grant. The researchers leading this project are Dr. Kelly Wilson, Dr. Tim Haithcoat, Dr. Rob Myers and Dr. Jordon Wade.
OBJECTIVES
- Perform a stakeholder needs assessment on the desired characteristics of a soil health information platform.
- Use an existing database to construct a predictive model of localized management outcomes.
- Design and co-create soil health information platform with stakeholders
- Determine effect of soil health information platform on stakeholder efficacy.
Want to learn more?
Contact this project’s PI, Dr. Kelly Wilson at kellyrwilson@missouri.edu!