SaskSoil has launched a new program for producers to help them improve soil health.
The Marginal Areas Rehabilitation in Saskatchewan program offers financial incentives to those who seed marginal acres to perennial forage.
President Mark Hoimyr said many farmers have areas on their land that cost more than they produce.
“SaskSoil’s MARS program will help cover the costs of trialing an alternative management strategy that works to move both the soil and profitability in a positive direction,” he said in a news release.
The agri-environmental benefits of seeding forages are well known: managing and treating saline field areas, soil conservation, increasing biodiversity and pollinator habitat, reducing herbicide-resistant weeds, product management buffer zones and the ability to address challenges such as clubroot.
Through MARS, producers can work with agrologists to identify problem areas in their fields, receive a $2,000 rebate toward the cost of that service, and get $75 per acre to plant forage on up to 40 acres in these areas.
For more information contact SaskSoil.
