To combat climate change, farmers must innovate through ecological intensification to boost
food production, increase resilience to weather extremes, and shrink the carbon footprint of …

On US cropland, the use of cover crops increased by 50 percent between 2012 and 2017.
Over this same period, Federal and State conservation programs have increased efforts to …

The soil carbon pool plays an important role in the global carbon cycle. One of the
alternatives suggested for addressing climate change (McKinsey and Company, 2009) is the …

Cover crops (CCs) were used on only∼ 5% of harvested cropland in the United States in
2017. Lack of information about effective CC management and the costs and benefits of CCs …

In the past few decades, farmers and researchers have firmly established that biologically
diversified farming systems improve ecosystem services both on and off the farm, producing …

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently reviewed trends in cover crop and
conservation tillage adoption in the United States. Cover crop adoption increased by 50%(or …

Cover crops can generate both on-farm and water-quality benefits. However, their use in
Iowa remains subdued, partly due to implementation costs faced by farmers. We tested the …

The “good farmer” literature, grounded in Bourdieu's concepts of field, habitus, and capital,
has provided researchers with a socio-cultural approach to understanding conservation …

The United States plays an important role in addressing both food insecurity and climate
change. Agriculture sits at the nexus of these two issues, which some have called “wicked …

The global soilscape is a resource commons that is essential to society. Social science has
been engaged in theoretical and empirical research as to how commons can be effectively …