Jewell County Soil Health Tour includes Wine Glass Ranch in Southwest Nebraska

Wine Glass Ranch is in southwest Nebraska. It is located where the Sandhills of Nebraska meet the Sand-Sage hills of Colorado. The Sand County Foundation, national sponsor American Farmland Trust and several prominent state conservation partners presented the Leopold Conservation Award to the ranch in 2022. The ranch was an early pioneer in no-till and rotational grazing. Wildlife populations have increased as habitat was improved using the Conservation Reserve Program to plant acres back to grass and including pollinator mixes on some of those acres. Wetlands have been developed, plus tree an...