What practice changes qualify?
Planting Cover Crops
Eligible Practices:
- First time cover crop adoption
- Longer duration of cover crops
- Addition of a legume to a cover crop
Ineligible Practices:
- Adding a non-legume cover to your current cover blend doesn’t count unless it extends the growth period of the cover crop.
Agronomic Benefits:
- Cover crops help access quality forage, build soil carbon, increase drought resilience, improve nitrogen availability, reduce compaction, and decrease weed pressure.
Earning Potential: $$$$
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Reducing Tillage
Eligible Practices:
- Tillage reduction through the number of passes
- Tillage reduction through delayed timing
- Tillage implement change to a lower intensity
Ineligible Practices:
- Dramatically reducing tillage (deep till to no-till) doesn’t count because the shock to the system can have unintended carbon impacts. Specifically, moldboard plow to no-till and heavy offset disc to no-till don’t count.
- Reducing the number of passes less than a full pass reduction based on the average of your historical tillage.
Agronomic Benefits:
- Changes to tillage restore soil structure, making it more resistant to weather. Plus, reducing tillage passes saves you money! See cost savings in the No-Till Savings Estimator in your account.
Earning Potential: $$$
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Improving Nitrogen Timing
Eligible Practices:
- Improving nitrogen application timing by reducing the number of early-season applications greater than 30 days before planting by moving it closer to planting.
Ineligible Practices:
- Other nitrogen practice changes, such as reducing the total number of nitrogen applications, are ineligible (although they can improve your soil).
Agronomic Benefits:
- Moving your nitrogen application closer to planting provides more available nitrogen for your cash crop and prevents nitrogen run-off.
Earning Potential: $
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Diversifying Crop Rotation
Eligible Practices:
- Add a new crop to the rotation while not increasing the annual fallow period by greater than 30 days
Ineligible Practices:
- Perennials cannot be modeled at this time and thus adding disqualifies a field.
Agronomic Benefits:
- Increased cash crop diversity breaks patterns of plant disease and pests while also providing nutrients for the next crop.
Earning Potential: $
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