From the Ground Up: Ohio farms lead new $10M soil health study

From the Ground Up: Ohio farms lead new $10M soil health study

KIDRON, Ohio — A family dairy that has spent years pushing its crops farther and harder is now looking for something else to carry them forward: endurance. Greg Steffen and his family farm corn, soybeans, triticale and rye. On just under 100 acres around their historic home — his children are the sixth generation to grow up under that roof — he milks about 130 cows, nearly four times the herd his parents tended when he was a child. Now he’s tryi…