OW TO STOP THE INVASIVE SPOTTED LANTERNFLYHOME|SOIL QUALITY INFORMATIONSoil Quality InformationHealthy soils YIELD healthy crops, But what is healthy soil and how do we achieve it?  Purchase Print ARTICLESUPDATED: AUGUST 28, 2012Photo credit: Steve CulmanSoil health is the foundation of productive farming practices. Fertile soil provides essential nutrients to plants. Important physical characteristics of soil-like structures and aggregation allow water and air to infiltrate, roots to EXPLORE, and biota to thrive. Diverse and active biological communities help soil resist physical degradation and cycle nutrients at rates to meet plant needs. Soil health and soil quality are terms used interchangeably to describe soils that are not only fertile but also possess adequate physical and biological properties to "sustain productivity, maintain environmental quality and promote plant and animal health" (Doron 1994).According to the (USDA) Natural Resource Conservation Service, "Soil quality is how well soil does what we want it to do." In order to grow our crops, we want the soil to hold water and nutrients like a SPONGE where they are readily available for plant roots to take them up, suppress pests and weeds that may attack our plants, sequester carbon from the atmosphere, and clean the water that flows through it into RIVERS, lakes, and aquifers.Healthy, high-quality soil has:Good soil tilthSufficient depthSufficient, but not excessive, nutrient supplySmall population of plant pathogens and insect pestsGood soil drainageLarge population of beneficial organismsLow weed pressureNo chemicals or toxins that may harm the cropResilience to degradation and unfavorable conditionshope helps to uplz mark me brainlist #varun