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ICGA Precision Conservation Management

The purpose of the Precision Conservation Management (PCM) program is 3-fold: 1) allow Illinois commodity crop farmers to voluntarily address regulatory issues and water quality concerns; 2) assist PCM partners wishing to demonstrate their efforts to support farmers (through PCM) and source sustainably-produced crop products; and 3) provide financial analysis of agronomic practices to help farmers make sound business decisions regarding implementation of conservation practices.  PCM’s primary resource concerns are water quality, soil health, and greenhouse gases and we focus our efforts and resources toward assisting farmers with implementation of in-field management practices that most effectively address those concerns, namely nutrient management, reduced tillage and cover crops.

Active
Innovation

Engagement Targets

Growers

Chart shows new, retained and total number of growers enrolled in each year of the project. Per the project registration, this project has a target of 400 unique growers.

Acres

Chart shows entered and enrolled acres in each year of the project. Per the project registration, this project has a target of 400000 enrolled acres.

Notes: (1) Minor fluctuations in the number of retained growers is expected from year to year. These fluctuations may be due to year-over-year crop rotation effects or other factors beyond the control of the project. Enrolled acres represent the total number of acres on an individual farm in a specific year. The ability to report enrolled acres is based on the Fieldprint Project Standard requirement that individual growers enrolled in projects enter at least 10% of the acres managed for a specific crop. (2) Entered acres represent the actual number of enrolled acres for which data is entered in the Fieldprint Platform for analysis.

Objectives

Farmer Enrollment
Enroll 400 farmers in PCM by 2023.
2022
First Party Verified

Currently working with 401 farmers across PCM.

2023
Second Party Verified

Last year's reporting numbers included data from the other Pepsi projects. This may have accidentally resulted in some double counting of acres and growers that were reported in those projects. For the 2023 data, I only included the unique PCM data we collected. We are currently have 279 growers in this project

Conservation Practive Adoption
Demonstrate greater adoption of conservation practices by PCM farmers after they have participated in PCM for at least 5 years.
2022
Second Party Verified

PCM develops confidential yearly reports of each farmer's environmental and financial strengths and weaknesses offering data summaries demonstrating average financial and environmental metrics for different management systems represented in its database comprising more than 1.6M acres of IL cropland from over 20,000 fields spanning 8 years. PCM also offers our cooperating farmers opportunities to receive financial and technical assistance for adopting new conservation practices. In 2022 alone, PCM Farmers implemented 235,212 acres of reduced tillage, 223,692 acres of in-season N application, and 74,862 acres of cover crops.

2023
Second Party Verified

Across ALL of our projects in Illinois we have seen 247,391 acres of Reduced Till, 257,009 acres on in-season nitrogen applications and 84,614 acres of cover crops. This is up from last year and we have transitioned many of our growers from this monitoring program into one of our projects where they are paid for their conservation practices

Farm Demonstrations
Demonstrate the on-farm financial impacts of adopting various conservation practices (reduced tillage, nutrient management, and cover crops) using publicly released annual PCM reports and other PCM analysis.
2022
First Party Verified

To learn more about PCM and to see the program summary (financials) and 7-year data highlights go to www.precisionconservation.org.

Technical and financial assistance
Through PCM partnerships, provide PCM farmers with financial and technical assistance to incentivize adoption of conservation practices with less risk to personal financial loss.
2022
First Party Verified

In 2022 we documented 235,212 acres of reduced tillage, 223,692 acres of in-season N application, and 74,862 acres of cover crops. PCM distributed approximately $1.5M in incentives through partnership with with PepsiCo in 2022 in exchange for these practices.

Participants

Project Lead Organization

Illinois Corn Growers AssociationFull

Project Details

Status
Active
Pathway
Innovation
Primary Crops
Corn (grain)
Soybeans
Natural Resource Concern
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