Midwest Cover Crop Council (MCCC) Cover Crop Decision Tools
The Cover Crop Decision Tool helps you decide what cover crops to plant based on your location, goals, and other crops planted. The MCCC hosts…
Category: Featured Resources
Producer-led Group Roadmap: Finding Success in Farmer-Led Watershed Organizations
Guided by steps taken by successful existing producer-led groups, the roadmap provides nine sections on how to establish a farmer-led watershed organization that works towards…
Field Walkover Guide: A practical on farm conservation tool
The guide emphasizes the how visual assessments on farm are useful in gauging potential for erosion and is broken into three categories: no signs of…
Climate Change Series
In planning the 2022 MOSES conference, climate change was identified as a major concern for farmers. This three part series includes talks on climate change…
Land Policy Report
Barriers to land access are laden with interconnected challenges of climate change, food sovereignty, structural racism and discrimination, cost of living, and public health. However,…
Young Farmers Racial Equity Toolkit
The Racial Equity Toolkit (1) introduces the toolkit and the vast systems of racism in our agriculture system, (2) offers guidance on organizing around and…
Land Access Solutions in the Agrarian Commons Model
Why work with a land trust to preserve or access farmland? And, how do we navigate the creativity AND limitations of easements on farmland? Farm…
Social Justice through Non-traditional Land Access Strategies
The Farm Commons team discusses inequities in who has access to land, who owns the land, and strategies farmers and farm-advocates pursue to secure land…
Farmers’ Guide to CART: NRCS’s New Conservation Planning, Resource Assessment, and Program Application Tool
The NRCS Conservation Assessment Ranking Tool (CART) streamlines and simplifies conservation planning so NRCS staff can inform farmers, ranchers, and landowners on how to implement…
Grassroots Guide to Federal Farm and Food Programs
This collection of current programs and policies breaks down who is eligible, success stories, application information, resources, and history. Originally released in 2014, the guide…