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Visit the Healthy Soils Week website to see the full lineup of events and partners. To follow along on social media, watch for and use the hashtags #SoilHealth.

Among the many benefits of soil health practices are the following:

• Improved plant health and yields;
• Increased water infiltration and retention;
• Sequestered carbon and reduced greenhouse gases (GHGs);
• Reduced sediment erosion and dust;
• Improved water and air quality; and
• Improved biological diversity and wildlife habitat.

Here is a selection of suggested points for your social media posts.

• Climate change is negatively impacting the health of our lands. Well-managed and healthy soils can sequester atmospheric CO2 and store it as biomass.
• Soil moisture plays a critical role in the carbon cycle and liveliness of our crops, whole ecosystems, not just below-ground ecosystems. Healthy soil affects how much water our soil can hold, and how water moves through the soil.
• Improving soil health can help break the "feedback loop" - where increased droughts reduces soil moisture, leading to reduced soil organic matter, soil productivity and carbon uptake, and increased GHG emissions.
• CDFA’s Healthy Soils program provides incentives to farmers and ranchers to improve soil health and make agriculture systems more resilient to climate change.
• Healthy soils practices are crucial for drought and climate change resilience - building soil carbon increases water holding capacity, which improves biodiversity in the belowground.
• Healthy soils practices increase statewide implementation of conservation management practices that improve soil health.
• CDFA is helping farmers and ranchers adopt healthy soils practices that sequester carbon and reduce atmospheric greenhouse gases.
• Healthy soils practices reduce atmospheric GHGs and improve soil health.
• CDFA's Healthy Soils program has awarded nearly $105 million in grants so far for 1,525 different projects.
• CDFA Healthy Soils Program projects sequester 358,589 metric tons of CO2 equivalent each year. That’s like removing nearly 77,265 cars from the road each year.

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