Spagnolo Farm

This is a no-till site with residue retention and sprinkler irrigation. Soil-health practices include maintaining reduced tillage, improving nutrient timing, introducing or strengthening cover crops, and diversifying crop rotations. The crops considered are maize (mainly food), wheat (food/feed), soybean (food/feed) and buckwheat (food niche crop).

Cultivated fields and farm track at Spagnolo Farm.

Carbon farming practices implemented

11 -  Manure incorporation into soil

13 - Improving timing and application of nutrients

15 - Cover cropping introduction or improvement

16 - Improved crop rotations

21 - Reduced soil disturbance (ranging from reduce/ minimum tillage to no-till in cropland)

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Farm activities

Soil cultivation practices  

Agricultural machinery working in a harvested field.
No- tillage

Crops:  

Maize cobs with husks opened on standing plants.
Maize

Hand holding ripe wheat ears.
Wheat

Poplar trees growing in rows.
Cover crop

Soybean plants with mature pods in a field.
Soybean

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