Saginaw Bay Agricultural Conservation Innovation Award Nomination
Conservation Innovation Award
Conservation Innovation Award
Please note, information submitted will be used for award/event purposes only and will not be shared. You may nominate yourself or someone else. If you would like to make more than one nomination, please complete each nomination separately. All nominations must be received by January 10, 2018. For questions or assistance, please contact Ben Wickerham at 517-316-2286.
·Intent: To show appreciation for farmers who are on the cutting edge of conservation innovation and to help build trust and deepen relationships with area farmers. Ideally, by recognizing this farmer with the Conservation Innovation Award, we would highlight interesting or new practices and encourage other farmers to pursue innovative applications of conservation on their own farms.
·Possible Recipients: Saginaw Bay Area farmers (row crop and vegetable farmers)
·Guidelines: Farmer must be farming land within the Saginaw Bay Watershed. Conservation can be either voluntary implementation or funded via a conservation program.
·Description: The Conservation Innovation Award is intended to recognize an established cash crop or vegetable farmer that has successfully implemented a new or innovative conservation practice on their farm. An appropriate awardee would have experience implementing either:
1) an established practice that isn’t widely used or accepted within this region or being used in a new and/or unexpected way or within a cropping system not typically suited to that practice or,
2) a new practice that could be described as original, cutting edge, untested, and/or experimental.
Well qualified candidates would likely be farming more than 500 acres, report a positive experience with said practices and would have the potential to be “influential” within the agricultural community.