Soil Health Principles (NRCS Five)
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The five USDA-maintained principles — minimize disturbance, maximize soil cover, maximize biodiversity, maximize living roots, and integrate livestock — that anchor the U.S. institutional vocabulary for soil-health practice. Useful as a shared reference frame even when the field uses different words for the same ideas.