Max Armstrong offers insights on the rising talk about soil health, rangeland health, and the economic health of farmers and ranchers. James Halvorson would want you to know they're linked. Halvorson is executive director of the South Dakota Stockgrowers Association who shared his thoughts on his journey from crop land to rangeland and why he enjoys being a rangeland evangelist.

Farm Progress America is a daily look at key issues in agriculture. It is produced and presented by Max Armstrong, veteran farm broadcaster and host of This Week in Agribusiness.

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