Agreement Number
NR186114XXXXG003
Awardee Name
Practical Farmers of Iowa
Grant Type
State
Project Title
Reducing Cover Crop Costs and Maintaining Cover Crop and Cash Crop Productivity
Awardee State/Territory
Iowa
Involved States/territories
Iowa
Award Year
2018
Start Date
End Date
Award Amount
$74,876.00
Production/Use
Cover Crops
Farmland Agricultural
Resource Concern (Broad)
Water
Soil
Resource Concern (Specific)
Organic matter depletion
Nutrients transported to surface water
Nutrients transported to groundwater
Conservation Practice(s)
Cover Crop
Project Background
This project will generate relevant, credible, third-party information on strategies that reduce cereal rye cover crop seed costs with on-farm conservation research trials using farm scale equipment. Inform potential changes to NRCS, IDALS, and others’ recommended cover crop practices as a result of knowledge generated by the on-farm conservation research trials.
Project targeted to Historically Underserved producers?
No