The latest Ag Economy Barometer suggests more farmers are using cover crops.
Purdue University’s Jim Mintert says…”two-thirds of the producers in our survey said they had either have planted a cover crop in the past or currently do so. Forty-one percent said they currently use cover crops.”
He tells Brownfield most of the producers surveyed reported only planting cover crops on a portion of their farms’ acreage.
“Roughly six out of 10 of the producers that use cover crops said they plant them on 25 percent or less of their acreage,” he says.
