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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)
NRCS District Conservationist Denis Schultz checks cover crops and soil tilth on a farm west of Sac City in Sac County, Iowa.
Please Credit: NRCS/SWCS photo by Lynn Betts
Rainbow chard grows in a field at Peaceful Belly Farm in Caldwell, Idaho on July 7, 2022. Peaceful Belly offers a CSA program to provide farm-fresh produce to customers in the Treasure Valley year-round. (NRCS photo by Carly Whitmore)
Sang Lee Farms Primary Manager Lucy Senesac and her team participate in the Westhampton Beach Farmers Market,, New York, November 6, 2021..
Transitioning to third generation, the family 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)
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.
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.
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.
Cover crops grow in a field in Evansville, Indiana prior to corn being planted on May 13, 2021. 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. The field is farmed by Patrick and John Bittner who plant corn directly into the cover crops and then terminate them with a roller crimper. (Indiana NRCS photos by Carly Whitmore)
Dan Perkins uses a flail mower to clear cover crops off a row prior to planting early summer produce at Perkins' Good Earth Farm in DeMotte, In on June 16, 2021. (NRCS photo by Brandon O'Connor)
John Hamilton plants soybeans into cereal rye on May 22, 2023. John and his son Joe farm 2,500 acres in Monroe Township, Indiana. They have enrolled in the Environmental Quality Incentives Program and the Conservation Stewardship Program through NRCS. (NRCS photo by Brandon O'Connor)
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 co-owner William Lee (left) shows Liz Camps, District Conservationist a variety of lettuce he grows in Peconic, New York, November 5, 2021.
Sang Lees Farms, 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)
Sang Lee Farms Primary Manager Lucy Senesac and her team participate in the Westhampton Beach Farmers Market,, New York, November 6, 2021..
Transitioning to third generation, the family 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)
Sang Lee Farms Primary Manager Lucy Senesac and her team participate in the Westhampton Beach Farmers Market,, New York, November 6, 2021..
Transitioning to third generation, the family 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)
Farm workers Bel and Layla prepare pizza dough for Conservation Summer Camp at Peaceful Belly Farm in Caldwell, Idaho on July 7, 2022. (NRCS photo by Carly Whitmore)
Mark Kimm, left, Bill Kimm holding his grandson, and Jason Kimm farm seed potatoes near Manhattan, Montana. Gallatin County, Montana. June 2017.
Millet is part of a cover crop mix on the Myllymaki farm. Photo taken July 30, 2019 in Stanford, Montana located in Judith Basin County.
Sang Lee Farms kitchen staff prepare freshly baked blueberry scones for sale, in Peconic, New York, November 5, 2021.
Sang Lee Farms, 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)
Aerial view of Mason Pecan owner Thomas Mason talking with U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Neal Leonard in one of his pecan orchards, in Fort Valley GA, on May 8, 2019. They discuss the farming challenges that resulted from Hurricane Irma. Two years ago, 800 of 2,400 10-year old trees were downed by the storm. Mr. Mason reached out to USDA Farm Service Agency’s Tas Smith to help restore operations. The orchard had to be cleared of debris before harvesting the surviving trees. The challenge is raising saplings alongside newly mature 12-year-old trees that require different levels of nutrients and care. This orchard’s yield will be cut by 1/3 until the saplings reach 12 years of age. Along the rows of trees and cover crop, burn sites, where tree cuttings were disposed of, are still seen in the orchard. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
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.
Faba beans are part of a cover crop mix on the Myllymaki farm. Photo taken July 30, 2019 in Stanford, Montana located in Judith Basin County.
Sunflowers are part of a cover crop mix on the Myllymaki farm. Photo taken July 30, 2019 in Stanford, Montana located in Judith Basin County.
Buckwheat is part of a cover crop mix on the Myllymaki farm. Photo taken July 30, 2019 in Stanford, Montana located in Judith Basin County.
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)
A tractor prepares a field by turning over the cover crop into the soil in preparation for planting at Leafy Greens, 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 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. 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 Media by Lance Cheung.
Millet is part of a cover crop mix on the Myllymaki farm. Photo taken July 30, 2019 in Stanford, Montana located in Judith Basin County.
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)
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.
Students in Conservation Summer Camp At Peaceful Belly Farm prepare vegetables for lunch on July, 7 2022. (NRCS photo by Carly Whitmore)
Sunflowers with bees grow at Peaceful Belly Farm in Caldwell, Idaho on July 7, 2022. (NRCS photo by Carly Whitmore)
Sunflowers are part of a cover crop mix on the Myllymaki farm. Photo taken July 30, 2019 in Stanford, Montana located in Judith Basin County.
A sunflower with bees grows at Peaceful Belly Farm in Caldwell, Idaho on July 7, 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)
An eartworm is found in the soil on farm in Evansville, Indiana May 13, 2021. (Indiana NRCS photo 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)
Millet is part of a cover crop mix on the Myllymaki farm. Photo taken July 30, 2019 in Stanford, Montana located in Judith Basin County.
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 stands in front of the storage facility where agri-chemicals are safely stored 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.
Buckwheat is part of a cover crop mix on the Myllymaki farm. Photo taken July 30, 2019 in Stanford, Montana located in Judith Basin County.
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.
Bryce and Brian Irlbeck adapted an old drill to interseed cover crops in knee-high corn on their farm in Carroll County, IA. They are experimenting with interseeding to get more diversity and a longer growth period for cover crops to build soil more quickly.
Please Credit: NRCS/SWCS photo by Lynn Betts