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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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