Awardee Name
Wasco County Soil and Water Conservation District
Grant Type
State
Project Title
Increasing Fertilizer and Pesticide Application Efficiencies in Long Term Direct Seed System. To incorporate and demonstrate a comprehensive precision agriculture technology in 15 mile and White River Watershed.
Awardee State/Territory
Oregon
Involved States/territories
Oregon
Award Year
2013
End Date
Award Amount
$75,000.00
Production/Use
Farmland Agricultural
Resource Concern (Broad)
Water
Soil
Resource Concern (Specific)
Soil organism habitat loss or degradation
Nutrients transported to surface water
Project Background
Provide a cost share incentive to Improve soil and water quality and reduce energy inputs in a wide scale adoption of "state of the art" precision agricultural technologies by incorporating telecommunications transfer system that will provide real time data transfer from the field to office settings.
Project targeted to Historically Underserved producers?
No