1998 Annual Report for FW98-020
Project Type: Farmer/Rancher
Funds awarded in 1998: $3,000.00
Projected End Date: 12/31/2000
Region: Western
State: Colorado
Principal Investigator:
Testing Alternative Crop Rotations for Traditional Small Grain/Fallow System
Summary
An alternative to the traditional small grain-fallow rotation will be explored with a fallow-wheat-oats rotation to increase the frequency of crops from specific fields. This alternative would enable farmers to develop a greater degree of economic sustainability in the face of the phase-out of government programs and decrease erosion of fields by reducing the amount of time the fields are fallow.