The two land-grant institutions of South Carolina, Clemson University and SC State University, have partnered on a pilot project funded by the USDA-NRCS Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities. The goal of this project is to increase the acreage and number of farmers using climate-smart practices like cover cropping, prescribed grazing, reduced tillage, and other conservation tactics. This project will provide technical assistance and financial incentives to farmers to enable adoption of these climate-smart practices and employ marketing specialists to analyze new market opportunities for the resulting products and help create new opportunities for the agricultural community across the state.
