Understanding why farmers adopt soil conservation tillage: A systematic review

MO Ogieriakhi, RT Woodward - Soil Security, 2022 - Elsevier
As soils across the globe continue to face problems of severe degradation and loss under
current management practices, there is a great need to study soil conservation decisions …

Airborne hyperspectral imaging of cover crops through radiative transfer process-guided machine learning

S Wang, K Guan, C Zhang, C Jiang, Q Zhou, K Li… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cover cropping between cash crop growing seasons is a multifunctional conservation
practice. Timely and accurate monitoring of cover crop traits, notably aboveground biomass …

Farmers' adoption and perceived benefits of diversified crop rotations in the margins of US Corn Belt

T Wang, H Jin, Y Fan, O Obembe, D Li - Journal of Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Monoculture and simplified two-crop rotation systems compromise the ecosystem services
essential to crop production, diminish agricultural productivity, and cause detrimental effects …

Strategies to improve field establishment of cover crops. A review

X Feng, L Alletto, WF Cong, J Labreuche… - Agronomy for …, 2024 - Springer
Cover cropping consists in sowing non-cash crops to improve regulating and supporting
services without seeking provisioning services. Cover cropping has the potential for spatio …

Operationalizing cultural adaptation to climate change: contemporary examples from United States agriculture

TM Waring, MT Niles, MM Kling… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
It has been proposed that climate adaptation research can benefit from an evolutionary
approach. But related empirical research is lacking. We advance the evolutionary study of …

Impact assessment of soybean yield and water productivity in Brazil due to climate change

EHFM da Silva, LAS Antolin, AJ Zanon… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
In the next decades, the population is expected to rise by more than two billion people, and
the projections of climate change have been considered as one of the greatest future …

Crop insurance participation and cover crop use: Evidence from Indiana county‐level data

L Connor, RM Rejesus, M Yasar - … Economic Perspectives and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This study examines whether crop insurance participation reduces incentives to use cover
crops in corn and soybean production. To achieve this objective, we utilize 2006–2015 …

Payments from agricultural conservation programs and cover crop adoption

B Park, RM Rejesus, S Aglasan, Y Che… - Applied Economic …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This study explores how aggregate payments received from two different US agricultural
conservation programs—the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) and the …

Examining intensity of conservation practice adoption: Evidence from cover crop use on US Midwest farms

NM Thompson, CJ Reeling, MR Fleckenstein… - Food Policy, 2021 - Elsevier
Growing interest in sustainability of food production has put pressure on producers to
examine their production practices. In particular, farmers' use of conservation practices is …

Recent rapid increase of cover crop adoption across the US Midwest detected by fusing multi‐source satellite data

Q Zhou, K Guan, S Wang, C Jiang… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Cover crops have critical significance for agroecosystem sustainability and have long been
promoted in the US Midwest. Knowledge of cover cropping variations and impacts of …