Satellite Remote Sensing Reveals Voluntary Cover-Crop Adoption and Crop-Rotation Hotspots in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain. [PDF]
PLoS ONEGovernment-subsidized programs like the Environmental Quality Incentives Program and the Conservation Stewardship Program provide financial motivation for adopting cover crops. Nevertheless, many producers have internalized the holistic benefits of cover
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Mapping cover crop species in southeastern Michigan using Sentinel-2 satellite data and Google Earth Engine [PDF]
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2023 Cover crops are a critical agricultural practice that can improve soil quality, enhance crop yields, and reduce nitrogen and phosphorus losses from farms.
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Mixed-Species Cover Crop Biomass Estimation Using Planet Imagery [PDF]
Sensors, 2023 Cover crop biomass is helpful for weed and pest control, soil erosion control, nutrient recycling, and overall soil health and crop productivity improvement. These benefits may vary based on cover crop species and their biomass. There is growing interest
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Cover crop residue decomposition triggered soil oxygen depletion and promoted nitrous oxide emissions [PDF]
Scientific ReportsCover cropping is a promising strategy to improve soil health, but it may also trigger greenhouse gas emissions, especially nitrous oxide (N2O). Beyond nitrogen (N) availability, cover crop residue decomposition may accelerate heterotrophic respiration ...
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Cogent Food & Agriculture, 2023 The rate of pennycress residue decomposition and mineralization is critical in determining potential nutrient availability for following crops. To better understand pennycress decomposition, we examined biomass, nitrogen, and carbon loss from wild ...
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Comparing cover crop research in farmer-led and researcher-led experiments in the Western Corn Belt
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023 Cover crops can mitigate soil degradation and nutrient loss and can be used to achieve continuous living cover in cropping systems, although their adoption in the Western Corn Belt of the United States remains low.
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Winter cover crops on processing tomato yield, quality, pest pressure, nitrogen availability, and profit margins. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Much of cover crop research to date focuses on key indicators of impact without considering the implications over multiple years, in the absence of a systems-based approach.
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Responses of soil nematode abundance and food web to cover crops in a kiwifruit orchard
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023 Soil biodiversity plays an important role in both agricultural productivity and ecosystem functions. Cover crop species influence the primary productivity of the ecosystem and basal resources.
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Short‐term impacts of cover crops in maritime potato (Solanum tuberosum) systems
Agrosystems, Geosciences & Environment, 2022 Cover cropping is a soil conservation practice widely investigated in agronomic crops, but less is known about cover crop implications in specialty cropping systems, particularly in a high disturbance system like potato (Solanum tuberosum L.).
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