Crop Seeding
If you see a helicopter flying at low altitude over farms the first couple weeks in September they are privately-owned helicopters seeding fields with a soil-building cover crop of winter rye, oats, and forage radish seed.
For the fourth year in a row, funding and technical assistance for the aerial seeding program are provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Dozens of farms across Massachusetts are participating in the voluntary program, which will run through mid-September.
