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The Role of Pollinators in Agriculture

This year's Pollinator Partnership poster “Pollinators and Agriculture: A Partnership on the Land" by artist Hugo Salais is an artistic...

Earth Day 2021 - Restore Our Earth

The theme for Earth Day 2021 is “Restore Our Earth.” As the earth continues to warm, people have become more conscious of making choices...

The Root Project

In the fall of 2020, we launched The Root Project and have been overwhelmed with the response from all our conservation partners and...

No-till Sweet Corn, Pumpkin and Winter Squash after Winter Rye – Reports from 2020

At the Pinney Purdue Ag Center in northern Indiana we had plots in 2020 with no-till sweet corn, pumpkins and winter squash following a...

Op-Ed: Celebrating Hoosier Farmers Who Feed and Clothe the World

National Ag Week is March 22 – 26, and National Ag Day is March 23. This year’s theme is “Food Brings Everyone to the Table.” CCSI is...

CCSI-SARE Core Cover Crop and Soil Health Virtual Trainings

Learning can often come in many formats. A visual learner prefers an image--diagram, graph, chart, etc.. Auditory learners are most...

Cover Crops in Specialty Crop Production

Row crop farmers are not the only group who can benefit from the use of cover crops. Vegetable growers also see a host of benefits by...

CCAs: How to Self-Report CEUs

The year has certainly presented many challenges for all of us in many ways. As we near the end of the calendar year don’t forget that,...

No-Till Pumpkins Are Clean Pumpkins

If you visited a pumpkin patch this fall with your family and found the pumpkins to be squeaky clean and the field not muddy, you likely...

National Farm Safety & Health Week, September 20-26, 2020

By now, you know you can count on CCSI to tout the many benefits of soil health on cropland and of implementing soil health practices in...

Celebrating 10 Years of Partnership

Conservation Cropping Systems Initiative is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. We are thrilled to be part of Indiana’s...

Cover Crops and Sweet Corn – Supplement to CCSI-HAT Soil Health Podcast Season 3 Episode 9

Sweet corn farmers Chuck Mohler from Northern Indiana and Tom and Victor Hackman from Southern Indiana agree: cover crops are a benefit...

Virtual Outreach & Education

Precious few things look the same as they did at this time last year. The pandemic has affected everything from how we work to how we...

National Pollinator Week June 22-28

Anything instrumental in providing 1/3 of the food that reaches everyone’s plate certainly deserves a week of recognition. Pollinators...

#LovINsoil Campaign Launched

Conservation Cropping Systems Initiative is excited to announce its new #LovINsoil campaign to promote soil health in partnership...

Fresh Produce Season is Here!

Spring has arrived in Indiana! Every season arrives with its own unique features that seem brand new year after year. Longer days,...

Soil Health Events: Back-on-Track

20 May 2020 For the past several weeks, our conservation partners, our farming community, and our nation have confronted unparalleled...

Women4theLand

When I googled “Women for the Land”, the first link is the American Farmland Trust page for their Women for the Land Program. “Empowering...

Protecting Earth's Skin - Earth Day 2020

Much has changed between World Soil Day on December 5th and the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day today, April 22nd 2020. In a world closed...

Earth Day 2020

The mission of CCSI is to improve soil health on Indiana cropland. We strive to educate producers about conservation practices that will...

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