Cover Crops and Soil Health in Soybean Rotations

Trent RobertsBy Trent Roberts

Associate Professor and Extension Soil Fertility Specialist

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Trent Roberts, associate professor of soil fertility and soil testing and holder of the Chair in Soil Fertility Research for the Division of Agriculture, discusses cover crops and soil health in soybean rotations. In particular, Roberts discusses yield effects of different rotation systems, including various cover crops, a traditional till system with no cover crop treatments, and a traditional wheat-soybean double-crop system.