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December 03, 2014

Cover crops can sequester soil organic carbon
Urbana, IL (SPX) Dec 03, 2014
A 12-year University of Illinois study shows that, although the use of cover crops does not improve crop yields, the practice does increase the amount of sequestered soil organic carbon using three different soil management systems. U of I soil scientist Ken Olson evaluated plots that were subjected to no-till, chisel plow and moldboard plow treatments with and without hairy vetch and cereal rye cover crops. "By 2012, we found that the soil tillage plots that had cover-crop treatments had mo ... read more

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