cover crop field (IMAGE)

Penn State

cover crop field

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Lead researcher Joseph Amsili taking core samples of cover crops at the Russell E. Larson Agricultural Research Center. The study revealed that cover crop mixtures increased total carbon inputs to soil because they simultaneously had high root and shoot inputs and they promoted higher carbon inputs from residues left by the following corn cash crop.

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Jason Kaye Research Group, Penn State

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