University of Illinois’ iCOVER (Innovative Cover-crop Opportunity, Verification and Economy stimulating technology for underserved farmers using Robotics)
This program is focused on innovations essential for accelerating market development for climate smart commodities and enabling minority farmers to participate in those markets. These innovations, such as robotic planting…
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Project participants will use basalt dust instead of agricultural lime to increase soil pH through a method known as Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW), which speeds up a natural carbon sequestration…
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This project will expand markets for commodities produced using Climate-Smart regenerative practices, with a focus on increasing accessibility to regenerative farming practices and markets for small and/or underserved producers
Read MoreLake Springfield Source Water Protection Project (RCPP)
The Lake Springfield RCPP will provide $1.3M to producers in the Lake Springfield watershed, with an emphasis on building soil health and resiliency, decreasing input costs, installing structural practices to…
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Precision Conservation Management (PCM) objective is landscape scale adoption of a conservation practice using farmers as the real-world illustration of how voluntary adoption of practices affect farm profitability and, therefore,…
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The Rend Lake Watershed Conservation Initiative RCPP will help implement climate-smart ag practices to reduce nutrient pollution in the watershed as published in the Rend Lake Total Maximum Daily Load…
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