Research Raises Questions About Cover Crops

Cover crops have gained elite status as a way for farmers to fight climate change. But as Gabriel Popkin explains in “A pillar of the ...

Are Cover Crops Overhyped? - Ambrook Research

“The climate mitigation benefits of cover crops are being overstated,” Blaustein-Rejto told Ambrook Research. “The carbon sequestration benefits ...

Long-Term Research Incorporates Cover Crop Questions to ...

He notes that the benefits of cover crops can be oversold. He expects that the detailed soil data that will come out of the improved cropping ...

Cover Crops' Climate Hype | The Breakthrough Institute

It found that when cover crops did increase carbon sequestration, there was wide variation in the impact, ranging more than four-fold from 0.08 ...

With cover crops, the hype far outpaces the science

“One thing the Biden administration, agribusiness leaders, soil scientists, and environmentalists all agree on is that farmers across the ...

Global meta-analysis quantifies benefits of cover crop use - News at IU

After analyzing hundreds of studies, researchers at Indiana University's School of Science found that cover crops increase crop yield by ...

Cover Crops for Sustainable Crop Rotations - SARE

Many research studies around the world demonstrate that cover crops can increase yield. ... Failure to do so can lead to failure of the cover crop and cause ...

How cover crops could help the Midwestern agriculture business

Cover crops help prevent soil erosion and can increase farmers ... One 2019 study of the Midwest staple crops of corn and soybeans found that ...

Cover Crops' Value Affirmed in Recent Survey - USDA NIFA

Cover crops can increase soil organic matter and fertility, reduce ... Understanding the concerns of both groups helps universities and ...

Benefits and Challenges of Cover Crop Use - Purdue Agriculture

In addition, research in Kentucky has shown annual ryegrass, a different species from cereal rye, has the potential to ameliorate fragipan soils ...

Illinois study shows universally positive effect of cover crops on soil ...

“Our analysis shows that across 60 field studies, there was a consistent 27% increase in microbial abundance in fields with cover crops versus ...

Research Begins Busting Myths around Cover Crops

With this broad collection in data comes findings that directly relate to grower concerns around cover crops, namely, during this time of year, ...

Do Cover Crops Help Farmers Save Costs?

After decades of research, cover crops have been widely shown to be ... concerns farmers may have about planting cover crops. Among the ...

Science Shows Cover Crops Increase Soil Health

Although it might sound obvious that cover crops benefit soil health, much of the research on how soil health changes with adjustments in ...

First-of-kind study suggests cover crop mixtures increase ...

Finney said the researchers aimed to address two critical questions related to cover crops and multifunctionality: Does including more ...

Cover Cropping to Improve Climate Resilience - USDA Climate Hubs

Cover crops increase soil organic matter, and improve soil fertility by capturing excess nutrients after a crop is harvested.

Cover crops for improved surface water quality: Benefits and ...

A review of published research shows that cover crops can increase time to runoff during precipitation events by 10-40 minutes. This can either reduce the ...

Benefits of cover crops extend to dry areas

The researchers looked at cover crops in connection with several ecosystem services. These included the amount of organic carbon in soils, soil ...

Viewing a thread - Cover crops to increase P & K - AgTalk

I just don't see how a cover crop campn manufacture P or K. They need to be hauled in. Cover crops with deep roots can pull P and K from deep in ...

Cover Crops and Covered Cropland, 2022 US Census of Agriculture

Cover crops increased less between 2017 and 2022 than between 2012 and 2017. This finding raises the question, “Are current cover crop incentive ...