The development and adoption in the implementation of cover crops in conjunction with alternatives of innovative conservation approaches

This project will use several conservation practices: Cover Crop (340) applied with practices such as Conservation Crop Rotation (328), Residue and tillage management, No Till (329), Residue and Tillage Management, Reduced Till (345), Nutrient Management (590),
and Pest Management Conservation System (595) as conservation approaches that have been used separately as a cover crop system to enable producers to be increasingly flexible and adaptable when top and sub-soil conditions are not suitable to the cover crop production and termination guidelines. East Arkansas Enterprise Community, Inc. will provide technical assistance and outreach to enable 30 producers in the project will use a combination of the conservation practices in that best suit their farm conditions based on their conservation plans. They will collect, analyze, record and compile data to evaluate the process and outcome of the practices, incorporate the evaluation data into a written report with recommendations about the effectiveness and impact of the various practices in the system, and make recommendations about the transferability of the system of practices for use in alternative crop production. The group will conduct regularly scheduled meeting among the project partners to update them and to confer regarding any changes or modifications that need to be made in the project protocol in order to meet the objectives.