Forty percent of farmers surveyed in the latest Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer say they will plant cover crops this fall.

Jim Mintert is the director of the Purdue Center for Commercial Agriculture.

“Roughly four out of 10 people that grow either corn or soybeans said that they plan to plant some cover crops,” he says.  

Mintert says they asked a follow-up question about how many cover crops would be planted.

…