Welcome
Since 2020, farmers around Wisconsin have shared cover crop and other soil health practices with us. Each colored dot on the map represents one of their fields. Farmers completed a survey and collected cover crop samples in the fall of 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023.
Map of participating citizen science farmers.
Do you see your dot? Click each location for more information on cover cropping practices.
Go to the map
Cover crop survey
Click here if you've registered to participate in this year's survey.
Go to survey
Interested in participating?
We welcome growers with all levels of experience and types of production systems.
Click here to registerFor more information on the project please visit the Michael Fields Agricultural Institute website. We are grateful to our collaborating Wisconsin farmers and our Soil Health Agricultural Research & Education (SHARE) project partners: the USDA-ARS Dairy Forage Research Center, The Nature Conservancy, UW-Madison's Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems.