Browse Ambrook’s collection of funding programs by Texas Tech University System

Contact Seth Cope, the project's key contact, to start the application process. The team first checks whether the program fits your operation. If it does, you sign a contract, choose the practices to implement, and work with the project team for the rest of the project.

Seth Cope

Key contact, Advancing Markets for Producers project, Texas Tech University

Krishna Jagadish

Samantha Borgstedt

Deidra Howell

**Notice**: _On April 14, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced the cancellation of the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities (PCSC). The USDA plans to reform the program into the Advancing Markets for Producers (AMP) initiative. Contact your local USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) for more information on how to apply to the AMP initiative. _


Texas Tech University's Texas High Plains Climate-Smart Commodities project tests three climate-smart strategies on working farms: sorghum-cotton rotation, no-till, and multispecies&#x2004;cover crops. It tracks environmental and economic benefits to producers with remote sensing and soil-moisture sensing. Findings are shared through the Texas Alliance for Water Conservation's hands-on farm walks and demonstrations.


The project started with a group of 20 producers across 10 Texas High Plains counties, and its USDA agreement runs through October 31, 2028. It now runs under USDA's Advancing Markets for Producers (AMP) program, with similar goals and more resources for regional producers. The team is looking for new producers for 2027 and beyond.



Notice: On April 14, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced the cancellation of the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities (PCSC). The USDA plans to reform the program into the Advancing Markets for Producers (AMP) initiative. Contact your local USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) for more information on how to apply to the AMP initiative. 

Texas Tech University's Texas High Plains Climate-Smart Commodities project tests three climate-smart strategies on working farms: sorghum-cotton rotation, no-till, and multispecies cover crops. It tracks environmental and economic benefits to producers with remote sensing and soil-moisture sensing. Findings are shared through the Texas Alliance for Water Conservation's hands-on farm walks and demonstrations.

The project started with a group of 20 producers across 10 Texas High Plains counties, and its USDA agreement runs through October 31, 2028. It now runs under USDA's Advancing Markets for Producers (AMP) program, with similar goals and more resources for regional producers. The team is looking for new producers for 2027 and beyond.

- Producers in the Texas High Plains.
- The project started with a cohort of 20 producers across 10 Texas counties, from Hispanic, veteran, women, beginning-farmer and early-adopter producers. The team is now looking for new producers for 2027 and beyond.
- You record detailed information on your farming activities and inputs for the project.

A lump sum of money for a specific purpose that does not need to be paid back.

Grant

Cotton

Sorghum

ELS Cotton

Upland Cotton

Pima Cotton

Fibers

Row Crops

Historically Underserved

Socially Disadvantaged

- $750 a year to each participating producer, for the time spent recording farming activities and inputs.
- A $10-per-acre incentive for adopting the project's practices.
- Capacitance probes or other soil-moisture sensors for each field site, including the cost of capturing and transferring real-time data.
- Soil sampling and analysis several times a year, with the data shared with you.
- Weather stations at field sites where needed, for evapotranspiration-based irrigation scheduling.

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