Cover crops are touted as a conservation and climate solution but adoption of them is leveling off, according to a new report from the Environmental Working Group.
The organization has analyzed cover crops in Illinois, Indiana, and Iowa every other year since since 2015. Minnesota was a new addition to the study in 2019.
Soren Rundquist is the director of spatial analysis and lead author of the report.
“We now have the ability to look at that adoption rate for cover crop plantings and what we’re finding is that since 2015, while cover crop acres are increasing in all four states, we’re seeing some leveling off in terms of that percentage of corn and soybeans that are getting cover crops,” he says.
