"UNH Receives USDA Grant to Boost Climate-Resilient Farming Practice: Project to Explore Crop Row Orientation and Cover Cropping Strategies"

"The USDA has announced $5.5 million in grant funding through the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) to support innovative agricultural production systems research, including a project by University of New Hampshire researchers who will investigate ways to adapt cropping systems for increasingly variable weather. The UNH project, led by Rich Smith, a professor in the department of natural resources and the environment, and Natalie Lounsbury, a research assistant professor in the department of agriculture, nutrition, and food systems, will focus on how alternative crop row orientation and spacing strategies affect the amount of light or solar radiation plants can absorb and how these strategies can be combined with innovative cover cropping approaches like interseeding to improve soil moisture dynamics, weed suppression and soil health." REad more