Landowners

Managing Warm-Season Grass Pastures

Native warm-season grasses have multiple benefits to soil health and for cattle production. This Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) resource provides guidance for planting legumes with native grass, haying, maintenance burning, and rotational grazing.

Integrating Practices That Benefit Wildlife With Crops Grown for Biomass in Missouri

This MU Extension guide describes management practices that can be conducted in fields used for biomass production to benefit wildlife.

Video Recordings: 2021 Missouri State Conference on Cover Crops and Soil Health

Watch video recordings of the virtual 2021 Missouri State Conference on Cover Crops and Soil Health.

Video: How Regenerative Agriculture and Diversity Saved the Hemme Family Farm

This video from the Noble Research Institute highlights the Hemme Farm and their experiences with Regenerative Agriculture.

Creating Inviting Pollinator Habitats in Agriculture

This Center for Regenerative Agriculture handout offers advice to integrate pollinator habitats within your farming systems.

Using Cover Crops to Improve Water Quality

This resource discusses how cover crops can can improve water quality by reducing erosion, runoff, and leaching by improving soil health.

Cover Crops: A Cost-Effective Tool for Controlling Erosion

This resource discusses the costs of soil erosion and explains how cover crops and reduced tillage can limit erosion before it begins by protecting soil from raindrops and increasing infiltration.

Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) – USDA, NRCS

USDA’s Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) helps farmers and landowners implement conservation practices to improve your operation and address natural resources concerns through a comprehensive (whole-farm) approach.  CSP contracts are set by state. To get started with CSP, contact your local USDA service center (find yours on this map). An NRCS conservation specialist will come...

Environmental Quality Inventive Program (EQIP) – USDA, NRCS

Through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) farmers and landowners can receive financial and technical assistance to implement a specific practice.  There is a long list of practices, and the payment rates are set by each state.  These are usually 3-year contracts to receive paybacks for practices.  There are a range of practices included...

COVER CROPS IN THE US: Current status and trends

In the last decade, we’ve seen remarkable growth of cover cropping use in every crop-producing region of the US1.  According to the 2017 USDA Census of Agriculture, over 150,00 farms reported using cover crops. Here, we provide an overview of cover cropping trends in the US, with a few key statistics and figures that illustrate...