Soybean Production

Margenot Soil Quality

This multi-year project will identify soil health, water quality and climate footprint best practices and metrics across regions and cropping systems (soy and double-cropped wheat, soy rotated with corn). Findings will inform practice-based recommendations that protect soil health and water quality, as well as provide insights farmers can use as they navigate carbon markets.

Positive impacts for farmers

This research project is designed to deliver hard, field-based data farmers can use to inform management decisions to achieve different outcomes. Farmers will have a clearer view of how tillage and cover cropping practices specifically interact across the three major soil and climate regions of Illinois. This will give them insights into the potential trade-offs between soil health and yield based on tillage and cover crop practices, as well as understand when it makes economic sense (or not) to take advantage of carbon and other ecosystem credit programs

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