Walk through a decision
What were you trying to improve? Explain the practice you chose, the equipment and work it took, and what helped you decide.
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Growing good things takes time
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Growing good things takes time
Farmer Expert Panel
What you tried, what it took, and what you learned can help someone facing a similar question. Bring your farm experience into a conversation with other farmers, researchers, and advisers.
Volunteer participation · Practical experience welcomed · Contribute around your season
A place for practical knowledge
The Farmer Expert Panel is the farmer and rancher community within SHE’s expert network. Members contribute to real soil-health and farm-management questions, helping readers connect an explanation with the work of making a decision.
You might manage crops, grazing land, orchards, vegetables, or a mixed operation. You might host trials, mentor neighbors, or have several seasons of experience with a practice. Tell us where that experience could help.
Sharing what you learned can also bring fresh questions back to your own farm. The aim is a useful exchange among people working through related challenges.
What you can contribute
What were you trying to improve? Explain the practice you chose, the equipment and work it took, and what helped you decide.
Describe what changed and what stayed difficult. Costs, dates, rainfall, yields, or soil-test results can help when you have them. Say which figures are measured and which are estimates.
Share what you would check, adjust, or ask before trying it again. A useful contribution can include a question you are still working on.
Farmer Experts share practical experience with the farm, region, season, and management conditions that shaped it. Those details help readers consider where an approach could fit and what they would need to adapt.
For example, a cover-crop story becomes more useful when it includes the crop rotation, planting and termination dates, spring moisture, and establishment costs. If you have a comparison, explain what you compared and over how many seasons.
Use the units you work with, such as acres, bushels per acre, inches of rain, or dollars per acre. Include metric equivalents when useful, and identify estimates. Explain which conditions another farmer would want to compare with their own.
From application to contribution
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Describe your farm or ranch, region, years farming, practices, and the questions you can help explore. Choose the availability that fits your season.
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We review your background and the experience you want to share. Applications are saved for review before a public Farmer Expert profile is published.
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Once approved, use the Expert Portal to find questions that fit your experience and submit a response for editorial review. Published contributions carry your name.
Start with your operation, one practice you know well, and a question you would enjoy helping another farmer work through.
Have a question about taking part? Get in touch with SHE.