When we use tillage, the soil ecosystem is disturbed on a massive scale. Purdue’s Dr. Eileen Kladivko contrasts natural ecosystems with tilled systems and describes what we stand to lose when soils are tilled.
SOURCE: Penn State Extension
Target 1: By 2020, at the latest, people are aware of the values of biodiversity and the steps they can take to conserve and use it sustainably.
SOURCE: Convention on Biological Diversity
This report provides an action-oriented approach to climate change resilience planning with steps and strategies to advise any company at any point in its journey toward supply chain resilience.
SOURCE: HSBC and The Sustainability Consortium
Resource that shows the current droughts and their severity.
SOURCE: drought.gov
The survey of 2,012 farmers showed acreage planted in cover crops has nearly doubled during the past five years, with 88 percent of the farmers using cover crops. The survey reported yield increases in corn, soybeans and wheat following cover crops.
SOURCE: Conservation Technology Information Center (CTIC), USDA’s Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Agency (SARE) and the American Seed Trade Association (ASTA) with some of their member companies.
Connect to the USDA-NRCS cover crops and soil health information on the web, which includes cover crop guides.
SOURCE: USDA-NRCS
Published in 2007, this guide can be used in conjunction with other information on farm management to develop a reasonable cover crops strategy.
SOURCE: Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN), Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, USDA, University of Maryland and University of Vermont.
This summary of cover crop selection will be helpful for producers who want a quick guide with no-nonsense information in order to solve a specific field challenge.
SOURCE: North Dakota State University