National survey documents a wide range of cover crop benefits
Cover crops improve yield and profit, and help with weed control and early planting, new survey shows.
Cover crop roots are an essential key to understanding ecosystem services
New York Soil Health extension associate Joseph Amsili spearheaded this cover crop research when he was a graduate student at Penn State. His study advances our understanding of the linkages between root traits and the services cover crops provide.
Quick listen with Rattan Lal who won the World Food Prize this year
Rattan Lal, an Indian-born scientist, has devoted his career to finding ways to capture carbon from the air and store it in soil.
Cover crop mixtures must be ‘farm-tuned’ to provide maximum ecosystem services
Researchers tracked a five-species cover crop mix planted over two growing seasons on eight organic dairy farms in Pennsylvania and New York and on research plots at Penn State’s Russell E. Larson Agricultural Research Center.
Two news items about Johannes Lehmann’s forward-thinking soil science research
Lehmann and an international, interdisciplinary group of scientists propose the creation of new soil carbon-persistence models through the lens of “functional complexity” – the interplay between time and space in soil carbon’s changing molecular structure.
Ohio State University Professor of Soil Science Gets World Food Prize
A soil scientist whose research led to improved food production and a better understanding of how atmospheric carbon can be held in the soil to help combat climate change was named this year’s recipient of the World Food Prize.