Agreement Number
NR233A750011G007
Awardee Name
VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY - Reiter CC for drought
Grant Type
Classic
Project Title
Climate smart practices for resiliency
Awardee State/Territory
Virginia
Involved States/territories
Virginia
Award Year
2022
Start Date
End Date
Award Amount
$999,277.00
Production/Use
Farmland Agricultural
Resource Concern (Broad)
Air
Soil
Resource Concern (Specific)
Organic matter depletion
Soil Health
Compaction
Carbon emissions and sequestration
Conservation Practice(s)
Controlled Traffic Farming
Cover Crop
Deep Tillage
Pest Management Conservation System
Residue and Tillage Management, Reduced Till
Project Background
The overall goal of this project is to demonstrate the integration of cover crops and precision tillage as climate-smart technologies to increase resiliency to short-term droughts, improve soil health parameters, and reduce atmospheric carbon concentrations by decreasing emissions and increasing sequestration. In-field data layers (soil mapping, moisture, compaction) will be coupled with soil health parameters, disease/insect/weed surveys, and cash crop yield to quantify different management systems. Cover crop biomass data will be coupled with real-time CO2 data and tillage data to quantify carbon savings and sequestration due to introduced smart farming practices.
Project Scale
Multi-farm
Project targeted to Historically Underserved producers?
No
Awardee Technical Contact Name
Mark S. Reiter