Environmental Defense Fund, the University of Minnesota’s Center for Farm Financial Management, the Minnesota State Farm Business Management program, and the University of Minnesota Extension’s Southwest Minnesota Farm Business Management Association are leading a collaborative effort to gather farm-level financial data on cover crops.
The project is gathering detailed financial data on cover crops between 2022-2024 from corn, soybean, and other row crop farms across Minnesota. Financial impacts will be evaluated across different species, mixes and uses of cover crops. The returns and expenses of commodity crop fields using cover crops will also be compared to fields without cover crops.
Source: edf.org
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Categories: Minnesota, Crops