Soil Health Exchange · Students

Bring your soil-health learning into the field.

Read a soil report, plan a sampling visit, and keep the evidence behind your next question. Standard My Farm is free with a verified institutional email and a Student profile.

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A workspace for learning by doing

Read the evidence

Soil assessment reports and saved soil-test history help you connect a result to its methods, field conditions, and next steps.

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Plan the fieldwork

3 new sampling plans per month, operational sampling exports, and saved cover-crop plans help you prepare and compare your choices.

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Keep the work together

Save fields, observations, reports, Action Packs, and reminders. Share a private, view-only summary with an instructor or adviser when you choose.

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Build your understanding

Work through the free six-part CEMA 216 course. Pass all six checks to earn a completion certificate and one report project credit.

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Student access includes standard My Farm for your own learning and fieldwork. Unlimited Sampling and professional client projects have separate plans. The course certificate records learning; NRCS Qualified Individual eligibility follows its own requirements.

Start with your institutional email

1. Verify your college or university email. Use the secure sign-in link sent to that inbox, or Google sign-in with the same institutional address.
2. Choose Student and complete your profile. Add your school or program, state, and what you want to learn or work on.
3. Open My Farm. Look for “Free student access,” then start with a report, course, or field observation.

Already using a personal email? Sign out first, then sign in with your institutional address. Each email has its own account and saved work. For help keeping existing records together, email contact@soilhealthexchange.com before switching.

Automatic recognition currently covers institutional addresses ending in .edu, .ac.uk, .edu.au, .ac.in, .edu.in, and .ac.za, including student subdomains. If your institution uses another domain, send us its name and website from your institutional inbox so we can review it.

Already on a paid My Farm plan? Cancel renewal in billing to move to free standard student access after the paid period. An existing paid subscription does not cancel automatically.

Follow the question that interests you

Explore the soil biology and soil-health indicator series, or bring a field question to the expert network.

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