Innovating Conservation Tillage & Crop Rotation Strategies to Reduce Soil Erosion & Degradation for Field Cropped Soils in SouthCentral Alaska

Conservation tillage and/or crop rotation strategies have never been thoroughly evaluated or implemented to any degree in Southcentral Alaska. The project will utilize various implements and pieces of machinery that have not been nor are currently available in Alaska. Alaska’s growing season is very different from those in the lower 48 states, for which the current tillage, crop rotation, and residue practice guidelines are written. This project will innovate Alaskan-specific practice guidelines directly in collaboration with the agricultural producers who so desperately require them.