New ASSET Initiative incentivizes sugarbeet growers to cut erosion with strip-till program

A new partnership in the Saginaw Bay Watershed is helping sugarbeet growers reduce erosion while testing strip-till practices. Conservation advisor Simon Yevzelman with The Nature Conservancy tells Brownfield the Accessing Subsidized Strip-till Equipment Trial, or ASSET, program offers farmers about $52 per acre if fully enrolled. “The program is going to be running for three […]

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