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$10 Million Grant will Help MU Double the Acreage of Cover Crops in the U.S. by 2030

Five-year USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture grant will help double cover crop seed production.

Written by Brian Consiglio · March 7, 2023

Rob Myers, director of MU’s Center for Regenerative Agriculture, is leading a new $10 million grant project from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, a federal agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), to support farmers and improve agriculture practices during severe weather and a warming climate.The project aims to help double the acreage of cover crops in…