Healthy Soils for Sustainable Cotton

To quantify, expand, and verify the productivity and environmental benefits of soil health management systems used by cotton producers. Using micro-communities of cotton growers utilizing soil health practices, where growers can learn from mentors and regularly discuss tactics with peers over three years, the program will create a groundswell of producers pioneering soil health systems on their farms, as described below.

Complete
Innovation

Objectives

Increase the adoption of soil health management systems (SHMS) by 35 cotton producers by 2021.
First Party Verified

No farmers were engaged in 2020 due to COVID-19 restrictions.

Quantify the production and environmental benefits associated with adoption of soil health management systems on 35 cotton farms by 2021
First Party Verified

No farmers were engaged in 2020 due to COVID-19 restrictions.

Create a soil health farmer mentor network to foster peer to peer exchange of ideas and solutions to managing soil health practices and activities in each of the six states participating in the project.
First Party Verified

No farmers were engaged in 2020 due to COVID-19 restrictions.

Participants

Project Lead Organization

Soil Health InstituteFull
Cotton IncorporatedFull
WalmartAssociate
University of ArkansasFull
Texas A&M Agrilife ResearchFull
National Cotton Council of AmericaFull
Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)Full
University of GeorgiaFull

Project Details

Status
Complete
Pathway
Innovation
Primary Crops
Cotton

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