Agreement Number
NR21-13G033
Awardee Name
MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY
Grant Type
Classic
Project Title
Combining Cover Crops with Irrigation Water Management Technologies to Economically Reduce Pollutant Loss from Farm Fields, Transport of Agrochemicals in Streams, and Aquifer Decline
Awardee State/Territory
Mississippi
Involved States/territories
Arkansas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Missouri
Award Year
2020
Start Date
End Date
Award Amount
$1,480,526.00
Production/Use
Farmland Agricultural
Resource Concern (Broad)
Soil
Water
Resource Concern (Specific)
Pesticides transported to surface water
Pesticides transported to ground water
Nutrients transported to surface water
Nutrients transported to groundwater
Nonpoint phosphorus surface loss; phosphorus
Soil Structure
Soil Health
Nonpoint phosphorus leaching loss; phosphorus
Field sediment, nutrient and pathogen loss
Cover cropping
Field pesticide loss
Nonpoint nitrogen surface loss; nitrogen
Nonpoint nitrogen leaching loss; nitrogen
nitrogen or phosphorus issues
Inefficient irrigation water use
Groundwater depletion
Water Quality
Water Quantity
Conservation Practice(s)
Conservation Cover
Conservation Crop Rotation
Cover Crop
Irrigation Water Management
Project Background
This project will improve water quality and quantity by increasing the adoption of a novel production system based on scheduling and delivering water to cover crop production systems using state-of-the-art technologies. The overall objective for this project is to demonstrate, evaluate, and educate practitioners concerning the effects of coupling cover crop production systems with IWM tools on erosion, off-site agrochemical transport, consumptive water use and net returns from the field to basin scale.
Project Scale
Field-level
Multi-farm
Regional
Project targeted to Historically Underserved producers?
No
Awardee Technical Contact Name
L. Jason Krutz