This map shows the yield impacts for cover crop adoption for corn fields in 2019 and 2020 in six states. Red and orange areas on the map show fields with lower yields because of cover crop usage. 🌽 #NASAEarth
"More research can help guide that implementation by showing, among other things, how alternatives to rye – the most commonly used cover crop in the U.S. Corn Belt – might result in higher primary crop yields in some regions"
Federal subsidies promote planting cover crops to store carbon in agricultural soils, among other benefits, but the approach as currently practiced can reduce yields in the U.S. Corn Belt, researchers find.
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in reply to NASA • • •https://news.stanford.edu/2022/11/08/cover-crops-can-lower-yields/
"More research can help guide that implementation by showing, among other things, how alternatives to rye – the most commonly used cover crop in the U.S. Corn Belt – might result in higher primary crop yields in some regions"
Cover crops can lower yields | Stanford News
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