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Bootheel Partner Program Benefits

The landowner:

Reduced tillage and chemical costs:

  • Restrains weed growth
  • Promotes stubble decomposition
  • Promotes minimum and no-till farming

Reduced soil erosion; allows sediments to settle out before being discharged into ditches.

Financial opportunities from recreational leasing (bird watching & hunting).

The environment:

Water quality is improved. Chemicals and sediments settle out in flooded fields.

Groundwater recharge also occurs due to winter flooding.


The waterfowl:

Post harvest flooding provides:

  • Resting and wintering area for migrating waterfowl.
  • Waste grain and weed seed consumed provides for successful nesting and migration.

 

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