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Nebraska Master Naturalist Visit: Pheasants Forever Cover Crop Study

Join us on April 5th for a noon hour conversation with Pheasants Forever Precision Ag Coordinator Nathan Pflueger as we discuss Pheasants Forever Cover Crop Habitat Study and how you can get involved. Nebraska Master Naturalists have participated in this program the last two years and this is a great opportunity for community science data collection. This event will be via zoom and the link to join is below!

Project Background: Background: Historically producers farming in an agricultural dominated landscape have had little interest in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) or any perennial habitat program. With the lack of interest in creating perennial wildlife habitat from landowners, Pheasants Forever of Nebraska began looking at using cover crops within the agriculture landscape to create wildlife habitat on an annual basis. A lot of research has been done in the area of cover crops and how they benefit soil health, but little research has looked at cover crop benefits to wildlife on the landscape. Coming into year 3 of our Pathway For Wildlife (PFW) program, which Pheasants Forever utilizes as a program to put cover crops on the landscape, we are interested in studying the impact of our cover crops on wildlife.