Practice Implementation Verification
2025 CY Verified Practices
Practices verified:
Conservation Crop Rotation - NRCS Practice 345
Practices verified: 0
**LINK to 2025 single BC record for this farm**2025 CY Verified Practices
Practices verified:
Cover Crop - NRCS Practice 330
Practices verified: 0
**LINK to 2025 single BC record for this farm**2024 CY Verified Practices
Practices verified:
Nutrient Management - NRCS Practice 590
Practices verified: 0
**LINK to 2024 single BC record for this farm**Conservation Practice Benefits:
Cover Crop
NRCS #340
Conservation crop rotation improves soil health by alternating crops with different rooting depths, nutrient demands, and residue characteristics. Crop rotations help break pest and disease cycles, improve nutrient use efficiency, and increase organic matter. Over time, this practice can improve yields, reduce input costs, and enhance resilience to weather variability.
Nutrient Management
NRCS #590
Nutrient management matches fertilizer and manure applications to crop needs based on soil tests and realistic yield goals. This practice helps improve nutrient use efficiency, supports crop productivity, and reduces nutrient losses to air and water. Proper nutrient management can also help lower input costs while protecting water quality and maintaining long-term soil health.
Conservation Crop Rotation
NRCS #328
Cover crops are planted between cash crops to maintain living roots in the soil year-round. They help reduce erosion, minimize nutrient losses, suppress weeds, and improve soil health by adding organic matter and enhancing biological activity. Cover crops can also improve soil moisture management, increase water infiltration, and support long-term productivity.
What is Farmer Forward?
Farmer Forward is a farmer-led, field-level verification program that establishes consumer trust in U.S. farmers who use conservation practices to preserve their land and livelihoods for future generations. Farmer Forward provides:
- Independent, third-party verification at the field level and traceable all the way back to the farm.
- A recognized and rigorous standard built on USDA/NRCS-endorsed conservation practices.
- Financial and administrative support to help farmers adopt and sustain those practices, so the farmers doing the work capture more value from what they grow.
Farmer Forward was developed as a program partner under the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Advancing Markets for Producers (AMP) initiative, Grant No. NR233A750004G026, administered by Oregon State University.
Who Makes Farmer Forward Possible?
This program is the result of federal funding, land-grant research, and technology working together. The USDA provides funding and policy support through its Advancing Markets for Producers initiative, while Oregon State University leads the research, administers the grant, and delivers technical assistance to enrolled growers. AgBiz Logic supplies the decision-making tools that transform farm practice data into quantified outcomes. The Soil Health Institute brings peer-reviewed measurement standards that give practice claims scientific credibility, and the Global Hemp Innovation Center extends reach into tribal and underserved rural communities. LoCo Lab brings it all to market, operating the program, managing verifications, issuing certificates, and telling each farmer's story in a way that connects documented stewardship to the buyers and consumers who value it.
This program is supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), through the Advancing Markets for Producers (AMP) initiative, Grant No. NR233A750004G026. USDA is an equal opportunity provider, employer, and lender.