RegenAg

Sustainable Agricultural Intensification and Enhancement Through The Utilization of Regenerative Agricultural Management Practices

The Southern Great Plains RegenAg project is a USDA NIFA AFRI funded $10 million 5-year grant. This multi-disciplinary research project explores and investigates regenerative agricultural practices to increase the agricultural sustainability of the Southern Great Plains in cotton production systems. Together, our team of 29 researchers across 8 institutions and 2 states aims to increase agricultural intensification in tandem with sustainability and conservation.

What is regenerative agriculture?

Regenerative Agriculture can be an elusive term, defined differently based on context, region, and background. Due to this variability, one of our primary goals is to definitively define regenerative agriculture in semi-arid climates. The regenerative agricultural practices we are evaluating include: cover crops, no-tillage, cotton-wheat rotations, livestock integration.

See where we work and are testing these practices.

Our project includes 5 main objectives:

Field Research, Economics, Extension & Education, Outreach, and Modeling.

Each objective is designed to build off each other to further advance the overall goals of the project,
the core of all objectives being an evaluation of regenerative agricultural practices in semi-arid climates.

Learn more about our goals here.

The project principal investigators are experts in a variety of disciplines related to this project and help meet producer demand for knowledge on regenerative agriculture.