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Cover crops are aerially seeded over corn at Scully Family Farms in Spencer, Indiana Sept. 29, 2022. The cover crops mix includes cereal rye, crimson clover and rapeseed and was spread over 160 acres of no-till farmland that will be planted with soybeans in the spring. (NRCS photo by Brandon O’Connor)
To build soil health, cattle graze cover crops on land not currently in vegetable production at Square Peg Farm, which is a certified organic produce farm located near Forest Grove, Oregon.
Brad Hunter plants corn into a stand of cover crop on his farm in Porter County, Indiana. 5/4/2023; photo donated to USDA by Jacob Tosch, Porter County SWCD.
Garlic grows in a field at Peaceful Belly Farm in Caldwell, Idaho on July 7, 2022. .(NRCS photo by Carly Whitmore)
Flowers grow in a pollinator planting at Peaceful Belly Farm in Caldwell, Idaho on July 7, 2022. (NRCS photo by Carly Whitmore)
Patrick Bittner (left), a farmer in Evansville Indiana, checks the soil in his field along with Keith Williams, Indiana NRCS planning team leader, prior to planting corn on May 13, 2021. Bittner is a no-till farmer and directly plants his corn seed into his cover crops. The cover crops are made of a diverse 12 seed mix including Cereal rye, triticale, annual rye, rape, black oats, Balansa Fixation clover, Kentucky Pride Crimson, Hairy Vetch, Australian winter peas, Red clover, turnips and winter barley. (Indiana NRCS photos by Brandon O’Connor)
Tomatoes grow in a high tunnel at Peaceful Belly Farm in Caldwell, Idaho on July 7, 2022. (NRCS photo by Carly Whitmore)
Conventional sprinkler irrigation at Leafy Greens, operated by farmer Tom Heess, in the Salinas Valley, California on Thursday, June 16, 2011. Leafy Greens grows row crops of lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower sweet peas and seed beans. He uses rotational crop plantings to control weeds and plant disease. When a plot of land is at rest, he plants a cover crop of barley and rye grass because the roots hold the topsoil reducing erosion of the soil. He is converting his irrigation system from conventional sprinklers (seen) to micro irrigation. Where one system produces runoff and erosion of the soil; the other has little or no erosion, less maintenance, easy harvest and less water is needed. When seasonal rains produce runoff, the silt that flows with it is caught in sediment ponds (left and right of pathway). The ponds have grass, bushes and trees to hold the structure and allow the silt to settle. Spillways lead to holding ponds and eventually the Salinas River, a tributary of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. So far, because of its design and efficiency, no water has made it to the river. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
USDA-NRCS State Soil Scientist Shawn Nield gives a soil health presentation at the Magic Valley Soil Health Field Day in Kimberly, Idaho on June 29, 2022. (NRCS photo by Carly Whitmore)
Cover crops are aerially seeded over corn at Scully Family Farms in Spencer, Indiana Sept. 29, 2022. The cover crops mix includes cereal rye, crimson clover and rapeseed and was spread over 160 acres of no-till farmland that will be planted with soybeans in the spring. (NRCS photo by Brandon O’Connor)
Flowers grow in a field as part of a pollinator planting at Peaceful Belly Farm in Caldwell, Idaho on July 7, 2022. Peaceful Belly has a number of pollinator plantings in order to draw pollinators, such as Monarch butterflies, to their crops. (NRCS photo by Carly Whitmore)
Lettuce, kale and sunflowers grow in a field at Peaceful Belly Farm in Caldwell, Idaho on July 7, 2022. (NRCS photo by Carly Whitmore)
A sunflower with bees grows at Peaceful Belly Farm in Caldwell, Idaho on July 7, 2022. (NRCS photo by Carly Whitmore)
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) mascot Sammy Soil on the Sunny Ridge Farm in Laytonsville, MD on Monday, Apr. 28, 2014. The Sunny Ridge Farm owned by the Stabler family uses a number of conservation practices to promote soil health and water quality. No-till cropping systems use cover crops that help water soak deep into the soil and machines work lightly on top of the soil preserving vertical pores that are water’s pipeline to the roots. Cover crops prevent erosion, improve soil health, hold water, supply nutrients, and suppress weeds and pests. Fenced waterways keep livestock away from the streams and drainage to low points of fields, which allows grass, trees and other vegetation to grow. The plants take up nutrients from the livestock effluent, reducing pollution to waterways. The farm also has a well-designed agrichemical facility for an environmentally safe area to handle and store tanks of on-farm chemicals. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
USDA-NRCS State Soil Scientist Shawn Nield gives a soil health presentation at the Magic Valley Soil Health Field Day in Kimberly, Idaho on June 29, 2022. (NRCS photo by Carly Whitmore)
A sunflower with bees grows at Peaceful Belly Farm in Caldwell, Idaho on July 7, 2022. (NRCS photo by Carly Whitmore)
Flowers grow in a pollinator planting at Peaceful Belly Farm in Caldwell, Idaho on July 7, 2022. (NRCS photo by Carly Whitmore)
Keith Williams (left), Indiana NRCS planning team leader, checks the soil at a farm in Evansville, Indiana May 13, 2021. (Indiana NRCS photos by Carly Whitmore)
USDA-NRCS State Soil Scientist Shawn Nield gives a soil health presentation at the Magic Valley Soil Health Field Day in Kimberly, Idaho on June 29, 2022. (NRCS photo by Carly Whitmore)
Lettuce grows in a field at Peaceful Belly Farm in Caldwell, Idaho on July 7, 2022. (NRCS photo by Carly Whitmore)
Farmworkers pick squash at Lewis Taylor Farms, which is co-owned by William L. Brim and Edward Walker who have large scale cotton, peanut, vegetable and greenhouse operations in Fort Valley, GA, on May 7, 2019.
Mr. Brim talks about the immigration and disaster relief challenges following Hurricane Michael. USDA helped this farm with the Farm Service Agency (FSA) Emergency Conservation Program (ECP) for structural damage cleanup. He also mentions the importance of having Secretary Sonny Perdue, a person with an agricultural background, come visit and listen to 75 producers six months ago, in southern Georgia.
The farm’s operation includes bell peppers, cucumbers, eggplant, squash, strawberries, tomatoes, cantaloupe, watermelon and a variety of specialty peppers on 6,500 acres; and cotton and peanuts on 1,000 acres. Near the greenhouses is a circular crop of long-leaf pines seedlings under a pivot irrigation system equipped with micro sprinklers. Long-leaf pines are an indigenous tree in the Southeast. Growers are working to increase the number of this slower growing hearty hardwood tree in this region. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
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Patrick Bittner, a farmer in Evansville Indiana, plants corn directly into his cover crops on May 13, 2021. Bittner is a no-till farmer and he terminates the cover crops with a roller crimper after planting. The cover crops are made of a diverse 12 seed mix including Cereal rye, triticale, annual rye, rape, black oats, Balansa Fixation clover, Kentucky Pride Crimson, Hairy Vetch, Australian winter peas, Red clover, turnips and winter barley. (Indiana NRCS photos by Brandon O’Connor)
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USDA-NRCS Soil Scientist Shanna Bernal-Fields gives a soil health presentation at the Magic Valley Soil Health Field Day in Kimberly, Idaho on June 29, 2022. (NRCS photo by Carly Whitmore)
Corn grows at Scully Family Farm in Spencer, Indiana Sept. 29, 2022. (NRCS Photo By Brandon O'Connor)
Patrick Bittner (left), a farmer in Evansville Indiana, talks with Keith Williams, Indiana NRCS planning team leader, prior to planting corn on May 13, 2021. Bittner is a no-till farmer and directly plants his corn seed into his cover crops. The cover crops are made of a diverse 12 seed mix including Cereal rye, triticale, annual rye, rape, black oats, Balansa Fixation clover, Kentucky Pride Crimson, Hairy Vetch, Australian winter peas, Red clover, turnips and winter barley. (Indiana NRCS photos by Brandon O’Connor)
Tomatoes grow in a field at Peaceful Belly Farm in Caldwell, Idaho on July 7, 2022. Peaceful Belly Farm grows over 300 varieties of tomatoes for their CSA program and on-site restaurant.(NRCS photo by Carly Whitmore)
A cover crop grows on an agricultural field at Chino Farms in Queen Anne's County, Md., on April 13, 2016. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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USDA-NRCS State Soil Scientist Shawn Nield gives a soil health presentation at the Magic Valley Soil Health Field Day in Kimberly, Idaho on June 29, 2022. (NRCS photo by Carly Whitmore)
Sang Lee Farms, in Peconic, New York, transitioning to third generation, grows more than 100 varieties of specialty vegetables, heirloom tomatoes, baby greens, herbs. They continue to feature Asian produce, growing many varieties of Chinese cabbages, greens, and radishes.
The farm has been operating and growing on Long Island for over 70 years. During this time the farm has evolved and survived through economic fluctuations, family loss and growth, local changes in demographics and changes in the nature of farming on Long Island.
(FPAC photo by Preston Keres)
Cover crops are aerially seeded over corn at Scully Family Farms in Spencer, Indiana Sept. 29, 2022. The cover crops mix includes cereal rye, crimson clover and rapeseed and was spread over 160 acres of no-till farmland that will be planted with soybeans in the spring. (NRCS photo by Brandon O’Connor)
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) mascot Sammy Soil on the Sunny Ridge Farm in Laytonsville, MD on Monday, Apr. 28, 2014. The Sunny Ridge Farm owned by the Stabler family uses a number of conservation practices to promote soil health and water quality. No-till cropping systems use cover crops that help water soak deep into the soil and machines work lightly on top of the soil preserving vertical pores that are water’s pipeline to the roots. Cover crops prevent erosion, improve soil health, hold water, supply nutrients, and suppress weeds and pests. Fenced waterways keep livestock away from the streams and drainage to low points of fields, which allows grass, trees and other vegetation to grow. The plants take up nutrients from the livestock effluent, reducing pollution to waterways. The farm also has a well-designed agrichemical facility for an environmentally safe area to handle and store tanks of on-farm chemicals. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
USDA-NRCS Regional Soil Health Specialist Nick Sirovatka gives a soil health presentation at the Magic Valley Soil Health Field Day in Kimberly, Idaho on June 29, 2022. (NRCS photo by Carly Whitmore)
Keith Williams (left), Indiana NRCS planning team leader, checks the soil at a farm in Evansville, Indiana May 13, 2021. (Indiana NRCS photos by Carly Whitmore)