ENRTF ID: 216-F

Project Title: Implementing Hemp Crop Rotation to Improve Water Quality

Category: F. Methods to Protect, Restore, and Enhance Land, Water, and Habitat

Summary: We will evaluate how hemp crops may reduce nitrogen contamination of surface and groundwater in conventional crop rotations while demonstrating the environmental and economic benefits of hemp grain production.

Total Project Budget: $ 740,000
Proposed Project Time Period for the Funding Requested: June 30, 2024 (4 yrs)

Name: Keith Olander
Sponsoring Organization: Central Lakes College
Department: Ag & Energy Center
Address: 1830 Airport Road
Staples MN 56479
Telephone Number: (218) 894-5163
Email keith.olander@clcmn.edu
Web Address: http://www.clcmn.edu/ag-energy-center/

Location:
Region: Central, Metro, Southwest
County Name: Carver, Redwood, Stevens, Todd, Wadena

Alternate Text for Visual: Five panes: Question – hemp planting, seedlings, combining; Experiment– corn and hemp crop and grain and 3-year rotation tables, Outcomes – hemp grain and plant with bee with pollen. Site location map.