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Find out how you can reduce nutrient and tillage costs - risk free!
Take the California BMP CHALLENGESM
Test University Reccomended BMPs In Your Corn Fields – Risk Free
Reduced Tillage BMP CHALLENGE® for California 2010 Forms:
CA Application Form Reduced Tillage 2010 CA Check Strip Form Reduced Tillage 2010 CA Net Returns Assessment Form Reduced Tillage 2010 Nutrient BMP CHALLENGE® for California 2010 Forms: CA Application Form Nutrient 2010 CA Check Strip Form Nutrient 2010 CA Net Returns Assessment Form Nutrient 2010*For further information regarding the CA BMP CHALLENGE please see the Sustainable Conservation website at http://www.suscon.org/
HOW MUCH CAN YOU SAVE?
Using a side-by-side approach, find out first hand how Reduced Tillage Best Management Practices (BMPs) can boost your bottom line. See example.
The Reduced Tillage BMP CHALLENGE® provides technical assistance to help you get the best results and pays you cash if your yield and income are reduced. You’ll save money, improve stewardship and sleep soundly. This is a great on-farm research opportunity – you can’t lose! Limit: up to 160 acres per farm.
Are You Eligible?
If you farm in CA and grow corn for grain
or silage you are eligible. Sweet corn, popcorn or corn planted
for wildlife are not eligible.
How Does the Reduced Tillage BMP
CHALLENGE® Work?
Reduced Tillage BMPs are designed to save you money, by providing
technical assistance to develop the best reduced tillage practice for
your field based on field location and soil type. Joining is easy:
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Enroll one or more fields – before tilling your fields- by simply calling the BMP CHALLENGE at 608-232-1425 or Fax to 608-232-1440. Or email us or complete and mail or fax the form on page 9 (see brochure).
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You’ll use your conventional tillage practices on a check strip located by your crop advisor. On the balance of the field, you’ll use the reduced tillage practice and manage the entire field (check strip and balance) exactly the same way. If you don’t have a crop advisor, we can find one for you.
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Your crop advisor will help you set up tillage equipment and visit you during the season to assess crop progress. Your advisor will also work with you to identify and help address any tillage-related issues.
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At harvest, you and your crop advisor will assess yield and contact us if you find a loss. Your payment will be based on yield loss minus reduced tillage savings.
Your income is guaranteed!
You will earn at least as much as using your conventional tillage
practices, and in most years, you’ll be putting more dollars in your
pocket. If you do earn more by taking the CHALLENGE, we will
discuss your income increase with you and ask that you contribute 33% of
your cost-savings up to a maximum contribution of $6.00 per acre.
This contribution ensures that other farmers will be able to experience
the CHALLENGE.
The CHALLENGE is backed by a commercial service agreement provided by
Agflex, an Iowa corporation. Agflex is not an insurance company
and does not sell insurance. The CHALLENGE is not insurance and pays you
only for losses due to reduced tillage.
* For more information please contact Ladi Asgill of Sustainable
Conservation at (209) 576-7729 lasgill@suscon.org, or Dr. Jeff Mitchell of California
Conservation Tillage Workgroup at (559) 303-9689 mitchell@uckac.edu.
For further information please see the Sustainable Conservation website at http://www.suscon.org/
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