Awardee Name
Virginia Tech
Grant Type
State
Project Title
Improving soil health and crop productivity by utilizing diverse and high-residue cover crops in Virginia
Awardee State/Territory
Virginia
Involved States/territories
Virginia
Award Year
2014
End Date
Award Amount
$75,000.00
Production/Use
Farmland Agricultural
Resource Concern (Broad)
Soil
Resource Concern (Specific)
Soil organism habitat loss or degradation
Conservation Practice(s)
Cover Crop
Project Background
This award is for Virginia Tech to document, demonstrate and educate producers and conservation professionals about the benefits of transitioning land from traditional high intensity and low biomass production to systems utilizing high-residue, diverse cover crop species or alternative summer cover crops. The specific objectives of this project are: (1) to demonstrate various species of cover crops for different purposes, (2) document improvements and concerns with disease and nematode management based upon the chosen cover crop species, and (3) conduct outreach and education by establishing a suite of fact sheets, workshops, videos, webinars and refereed journal articles.
Project targeted to Historically Underserved producers?
No