The Huron Clean Water Project is once again offering a ten dollars an acre incentive for farmers who plant cover crops on their fields.
Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority Supervisor Kate Monk explains the farmers choose the type of species they use depending on what they want in their field.
But in order to qualify, farmers must two or more species in the cover crop mix and their decision will be based on the crop they're planting the following year and what they want to put back into the soil.
She says last year more than five thousand acres were enrolled in the program and they're around the five thousand mark again this year.
Monk explains the way people get the grant the following year is that in the spring before crops are planted they go out and do residue measurements on the soil surface and they have to have at least fifty per cent soil residue measurements.
The supervisor adds one thing the program has done is encourage farmers to plant a greater diversity of species in their cover crops and that was one of the goals of the program as well.
