Join us for a cover crop and soil health field day in Champaign County August 27th! Led by the IL Corn Growers and IL Soybean Association’s Precision Conservation Management program, we will be highlighting the management practices of the Rademacher farm and hear from speakers focused on what best management practices in Illinois are working.…
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Precision Conservation Management (PCM), a farmer service program led by the Illinois Corn Growers Association and Illinois Soybean Association and supported by a non-profit technology partner, Heartland Science and Technology Group, released their 2021 Business Case for Conservation this week, providing financial and environmental data on common Illinois farm practices. Among the recommendations, PCM experts…
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PCM has been awarded $5 million dollars by the United States Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA-NRCS) Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP). PCM farmers in 20 counties will be eligible for financial assistance when developing conservation plans through their local NRCS offices. PCM will use the award to continue to assist farmers in…
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Partners of PCM continue to show their appreciation. Field to Market acknowledged Clay Bess, Lead PCM Specialist, for his success in the PepsiCo cover crop cost share project, recognizing him as an Adviser of the Year. Clay was also named Partner of the Year with the S.T.A.R. program for his work to enroll PCM farmers…
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Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture provides a platform that allows PCM to analyze farmers on metrics such as greenhouse gas emissions, water quality, and energy use. PCM’s combination of these environmental metrics with enterprise analyses earned our team the Field to Market Collaboration of the Year Award for providing these valued assessments…
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Article Published by Farm Progress. June 15, 2020. Written by Austin Keating. Data from Precision Conservation Management helps farmers like Adam Brown determine return on investment for conservation practices before making the switch. Austin Keating – FarmProgress.com Adam Brown wasn’t sure about cutting back fertilizer on his family’s 1,000-acre farm in Decatur, Ill. Without local…
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Welcome to the Fall 2019 PCM newsletter! In keeping with the theme of the 2019 planting season, we’re running a little behind preparing it. But we have been BUSY! Today, we’ve enrolled almost 350 farmers from Illinois and Kentucky in the PCM program, representing more than 30,000 acres of commodity crops. PCM Specialists and staff…
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PCM Events & Updates A critical piece of PCM’s success is the one-on-one relationship between PCM cooperators and their Specialists. PCM Specialists have been busy delivering the Resource Analysis & Assessment Plans to our 117 cooperators in Illinois. The PCM team has been working hard all winter to have these reports ready to deliver before…
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Welcome to the Fall 2017 newsletter! A lot happened this summer. Our enrollment coordinators signed-up over 50 new cooperators – in April we hired 2 new PCM Specialists, Jacob Walker and Chris Stewart. Chris, our Kentucky Specialist, helped us launch PCM in 10 counties in western Kentucky. Download to read more…
