Read about our cost share programs

We offer cost share for cover crops on a first come-first serve basis at $25/acre, for up to 30 acres. If we have funding available at the end of the season, we will administer it across your additional acres on a prorated basis.

Why Cover Crop in the Coon Creek Watershed?

Cover crops are grown to maintain soil cover, and are often planted between the growing seasons of other crops. This practice helps improve soil health, reduce runoff, protect soil from nutrient loss, and more.

In an oral narrative interview with the CCCWC, council member and long-time farmer John Zinn explained why cover cropping is one strategy for managing flooding in the Coon Creek Watershed:

“You intercept the energy of raindrops as they fall, so that as raindrops get slowed down, the soil has the proper structure to be able to soak them up and direct that water into the groundwater, rather than make it run off as surface water. As the Haugen brother said, the water walks rather than runs.”