The trouble with cover crops: Farmers' experiences with overcoming barriers to adoption

GE Roesch-McNally, AD Basche… - … Agriculture and Food …, 2018 - cambridge.org
Cover crops are known to promote many aspects of soil and water quality, yet estimates find
that in 2012 only 2.3% of the total agricultural lands in the Midwestern USA were using cover …

Synthesizing conservation motivations and barriers: what have we learned from qualitative studies of farmers' behaviors in the United States?

P Ranjan, SP Church, K Floress… - Society & Natural …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Since 2011, qualitative studies examining adoption of conservation practices and programs
(CPPs) have burgeoned. This article presents a systematic review of all US-based …

Weed suppression in cover crop monocultures and mixtures

B Baraibar, MC Hunter, ME Schipanski, A Hamilton… - Weed Science, 2018 - cambridge.org
Interest in planting mixtures of cover crop species has grown in recent years as farmers seek
to increase the breadth of ecosystem services cover crops provide. As part of a …

Factors enabling and preventing farming practice change: an evidence review

P David, C Roemer, R Anibaldi… - Journal of Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
With environmental degradation reaching emergency levels, urgent action for preventable
behaviours is needed. There is limited scientific evidence available indicating key success …

Effect of multispecies cover crop mixture on soil properties and crop yield

M Chu, S Jagadamma, FR Walker… - Agricultural & …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Core Ideas After 3 yr, soybean yield was higher from multispecies than from single‐and
double‐species cover crop**. Multispecies cover crop** had higher soil water and …

[HTML][HTML] Maximizing soil organic carbon stocks under cover crop**: insights from long-term agricultural experiments in North America

Y Peng, EL Rieke, I Chahal, CE Norris… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cover crops are widely advocated for increasing soil organic carbon (SOC) levels, thereby
benefiting soil health improvement and climate change mitigation. Few regional-scale …

Growing degree days and cover crop type explain weed biomass in winter cover crops

B Baraibar, DA Mortensen, MC Hunter… - Agronomy for …, 2018 - Springer
Cover crops are increasingly being adopted to provide multiple ecosystem services,
including weed suppression. Understanding what drives weed biomass in cover crops can …

Farmer perceived challenges toward conservation practice usage in the margins of the Corn Belt, USA

RK Adhikari, T Wang, H **… - … Agriculture and Food …, 2023 - cambridge.org
While conservation practices promote soil health and reduce the negative environmental
effects from agricultural production, their adoption rates are generally low. To facilitate …

The Influence of Sugar Beet Cultivation Technologies on the Intensity and Species Biodiversity of Weeds

B Kotlánová, P Hledík, S Hudec, P Martínez Barroso… - Agronomy, 2024 - mdpi.com
Sugar beet production is highly affected by weeds. The structure of crop rotation, the use of
intercrops and different tillage techniques bring several benefits to sugar beet cultivation and …

[HTML][HTML] Modelling the impacts of diverse cover crops on soil water and nitrogen and cash crop yields in a sub-tropical dryland

II Garba, LW Bell, SC Chapman, P Devoil… - Field Crops …, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding the implications of replacing fallows with cover crops on plant-available
water (PAW) and soil mineral nitrogen (N) and their carry-over effects on subsequent cash …