This on-farm demonstration integrates real-time soil sensors with the collection of soil health metrics and carbon modeling to support 24 farmers located in Wisconsin’s Lake Michigan Basin, make in-season management decision to improve their climate resilience and productivity. Early conservation adopters (including an agrovoltaic system) are paired with farmers who have not yet implemented soil health management.

Data collected on each collaborating farmer’s field will be evaluated to demonstrate if and how soil health management can increase carbon sequestration while improving infiltration, water holding capacity, leaching potential, aggregate stability, and other soil properties critical to improving resilience and reducing nutrient transport.

The objective is to empowers farmers to share their conservation experience and data with others to increase overall awareness of and interest in climate-smart land management across the Lake Michigan Basin.