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Planted over the winter months between cash crops, cover crops such as clover, oats and rye can mitigate soil erosion, improve soil health, water and nutrient retention, and provide weed and pest management options, according to research done by the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, the research arm of the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture. Agricultural economists worked with computer scientists using satellite imagery and government data to estimate a 5 percent increase in voluntary wintertime cover crop adoption by Arkansas farmers. They also identified which cash crops were used in association with cover crops.
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