Conservation Tillage for Reduced Agricultural Air Emissions in the San Joaquin Valley

California’s San Joaquin Valley faces severe air quality challenges; the region was recently downgraded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from “severe” to “extreme” non-attainment. The purpose of this project is to encourage the widespread adoption of conservation tillage land treatment methods by western irrigated cotton and dairy forage producers in the San Joaquin Valley. Adoption of conservation tillage by large numbers of producers would help reduce agricultural air emissions in this non-attainment area, while maintaining robust production yields and improving farm profits.