Direct Seed and Cover Crop Practices

The purpose of this project is to educate our landowners to the use of direct seed farming, to the use of cover crops and provide access to equipment and seed to implement these practices. This will allow producers to grow crops without disturbing the soil, increase the amount of water and organic matter in the soil, decrease erosion, control weeds and increase nutrients in the soil by using legumes or by using plants with long roots to pull mobile nutrients back up to the surface from lower layers of the soil. This project will help to educate landowners on the benefits that direct seed practices and cover crops have on soil health.