Location: Forage Seed and Cereal Research Unit
Project Number: 2072-21600-001-019-A
Project Type: Cooperative Agreement
Start Date: Jul 1, 2024
End Date: Jan 31, 2026
Objective:
1. Translate soil carbon (C) results into a decision support tool to help growers understand how management impacts C storage on their farms.
2. Increase industry wide growers’ knowledge of the factors that affect soil C sequestration potential in Willamette Valley (WV) grass seed systems.
Approach:
To ensure that the findings for the C inventory and modeling estimates are accessible to growers, we will develop a novel, semi-quantitative soil health management index (SHMI) that integrates all the soil health principles and relates those values to soil C sequestration and GHG emission reduction potentials. The decision support tool will be a free, web-based tool specific for the Willamette Valley seed producers to visualize and estimate the climate benefits of implementing a variety of conservation practices on grass seed production systems.
