Funding Opportunities

A tractor spraying crops in a green field under a clear blue sky.

Edge-of-field buffers in crop fields can be planted to meet a number of landowner objectives. The landowner may want to increase profits by taking margins of the field that may be eroded or sapped by adjacent trees out of production.


Many landowners install pollinator and quail plantings along the edges of fields. For wildlife objectives the wider the buffer the better. The USDA and other organizations offer opportunities for cost-share and other payments to install these buffers.