Cover crops and no-tillage reduce crop production costs and soil loss, compensating for lack of short-term soil quality improvement in a maize and soybean production system
Alayna A. Jacobs, R. S. Evans, Jon K. Allison, E. Ramona Garner, William L. Kingery, Rebecca L. McCulley
Topics & Concepts
Cover cropTillageConservation agricultureEnvironmental scienceNo-till farmingStrip-tillSoil qualityAgroforestryMinimum tillageAgronomyConventional tillageCash cropAgricultureSoil fertilitySoil waterGeographyArchaeologyBiologySoil scienceSoil Carbon and Nitrogen DynamicsWeed Control and Herbicide ApplicationsAgronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems