
Why Not?
We asked farmers 'What are your greatest challenges in adopting
conservation practices?'
Here's what they said.
Apply currently-available precision farming technology to optimize results of conservation practices.
Utilize farm business management principles to make financially-favorable conservation decisions.
Allowing farmers to demonstrate their good stewardship practices and demonstrate continuous improvement.
Providing one-on-one consultations with conservation experts to give farmers the information, resources, and confidence to adopt new practices.
We asked farmers 'What are your greatest challenges in adopting
conservation practices?'
Here's what they said.
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Precision Conservation Management
A lot happened this summer with PCM. Our enrollment coordinators signed up over 50 new cooperators this summer.
Precision Conservation Management (PCM), a new agriculture program, analyzes the economic value of conservation.
The Precision Conservation Management program in Kentucky.
PCM is currently available in 12 counties in Illinois
Interseeding cover crop study continues.
A call to help us strengthen the economic case for sustainability practices
Field to Market Announces Full Integration of Sustainability Metrics into Leading Platforms for Farm Management, Precision Agriculture, and Decision Support
Dead Zones & Drinking Water: Update on Precision Conservation Management
Helping farmers realize dollar values of conservation
IL CORN PRECISION CONSERVATION PROGRAM RECEIVES NATIONAL GRANT.
The PCM program has been specifically designed to help farmers.
Closing Market Report - February 12, 2016.
Midwest To Be Used As Model For Conservation Efforts.
Grant Encourages Better Farm Conservation
USDA awards grant for precision conservation program.
USDA awards grant for precision conservation program.
Conservation grant awarded to Ill. Corn Growers.
Precision Conservation Program Receives National Grant.
Precision Conservation Management program receives multi-million dollar investment.
If you are farming in the 21st Century, you are probably practicing “precision agriculture.”
The Precision Conservation Management RCPP proposal was submitted by the Illinois Corn Growers Association in
A precision conversation program focused on getting farmers to engage in best management practices that concentrate on profitably and
NRCS will offer special funding for precision conservation management through the Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP).
A precision conservation program geared to have more farmers engaged in best management practices that protect water quality and
Agrible, Inc. has partnered with the Illinois Corn Growers Association (ICGA), as well as 30 other agricultural organizations
PCM is a farmer-led effort developed to address natural resource concerns on a field-by-field basis by identifying conservation practices that effectively address environmental issues in a financially viable way. PCM specialists work with farmers to identify conservation needs and use data from agronomic management practices, economic models, and sustainability metrics to develop customized solutions.
The data, stored in a secure agronomic database, can be used for the following:
The mission of the PCM program is to increase adoption of voluntary conservation practices by commodity crop farmers and animal producers in the Mississippi River Basin by assisting farmers with selection of financially-favorable best management practices (BMPs) for their unique farming enterprise.
Illinois Corn Growers Association, representing the interests of corn farmers in Illinois, works to constantly improve the business climate along with the regulatory and policy environment for corn production at the local, state and national level.
The Illinois Corn Growers Association (ICGA) is an association made up of nearly 5000 corn farmers from all over our state. ICGA is governed by a board of directors and represents Illinois corn farmers in Washington, DC as well as Springfield, IL on a myriad of issues that affect Illinois agriculture, corn farming, and rural life.
The ICGA board of directors is made up of eighteen farmers that derive a majority portion of their income from growing corn. Fifteen of those farmers represent the corn farmers in their specific districts. Three more are at-large directors, representing corn farmers all across the state.
ICGA is a member state of the National Corn Growers Association; every member of the Illinois Corn Growers Association is also a member of the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA). But what separates NCGA from other national agriculture associations is that NCGA activities and positions are guided and funded by their member states. Policies and positions are vetted through member states and corn farming “delegates” every year in March at NCGA’s Corn Congress.
FBFM is a cooperative educational-service program designed to assist farmers with management decision-making. It provides help with business and family records. Computer assisted record processing options are available either on farm or at service centers. It provides financial and production business analysis reports. An experienced Farm Analysis Specialist helps interpret analysis reports and counsels on management problems. The specialist meets regularly with each cooperator throughout the year. FBFM cooperates with the University of Illinois, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics and University of Illinois Extension, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, and local FBFM Associations. There are nine local not-for-profit associations in the state.
The University of Illinois is recognized worldwide as one of the great public universities, and the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences (ACES) has been there from day one. In ACES we use what we discover through cutting-edge research to ensure nutritious and safe food, sustainable and innovative agriculture, strong families and communities, and environmentally sound use of natural resources. The end result? Betterment of the lives of people, not only in Illinois but around the world.
The College of ACES is a global leader in the most promising areas of scholarship in the agricultural, consumer, and environmental sciences. We are known for our globally competitive students, our first- class discovery research, and the innovative knowledge we share.
Heartland Science and Technology Group (Heartland) is a nonprofit corporation organized for scientific research, engineering development, and educational purposes. Our mission includes providing educational, technical, and business services and solutions and fostering the transfer, integration, and utilization of university, government, and private industry research for public and social good purposes.
Heartland's role in the PCM program is to provide technical solutions to collect, analyze, and share precision farming, economic, and sustainability data in a trusted and secure manner. As such, we are the developers of the PCM website and database. Our expertise includes software development, scientific computing, engineering analysis, analytical and computational model development, and the application of state-of-the-art technology (e.g., unmanned aerial systems) to agriculture. Our software development experience ranges from developing first principles scientific and engineering computational software and analysis tools, to managing and hosting government accredited web servers and databases for sensitive but unclassified data.
In addition to PCM, Heartland provides support to programs to improve the management and protection of our natural resources, create secure and easy to use big data solutions, and develop instrumentation to measure the makeup of water and soil samples. Heartland is also leading an effort to establish a collaborative scientific software community that will enable private and public organizations to research, develop, and employ scientific and high performance computational codes while preserving proprietary methods, processes, and information.
More information about Heartland can be found at www.heartlandstg.org.
PCM is a program created by farmers for farmers to increase adoption of conservation practices in commodity crop and animal production systems. PCM combines farmers’ business goals with their conservation interests.
PCM's services for farmers includes the following:
Education , outreach, and consultation.
Enrollment and compliance assistance for federal (NRCS) and local conservation programs.
Assistance with sustainability assessment and interpretation using Field to Market’s Field print Calculator.
Capturing & demonstrating farmer stewardship and continued improvement in an aggregated, anonymous way.
Identifying “conservation best bets” - those practices that consistently result in water quality improvements and are neutral or beneficial to farmer profitability.
Identify practices that are effective for water quality but expensive to implement - target those for additional compensation.
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