23. Soil Renaissance and the Connection to Land Managers

The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation was founded in 1945 to help farmers, ranchers, and land managers in the Southern Great Plains, USA, to manage soil sustainably for agricultural production, and to promote proper land stewardship so that the land could continue to be healthy and productive for future generations. The Noble Foundation established a legacy of working with agriculturalists to achieve their production goals through sustainable, land stewardship practices. To continue this legacy, the Noble Foundation and Farm Foundation, NFP, collaborated to form the Soil Renaissance to strengthen awareness of soil’s central role in productive agricultural and natural resource systems. Success will be considered achieved when farmers, ranchers, and land managers, who are the guardians of soil, have all the resources, information, and support they need to maintain healthy soil.