Understanding the Effect of Cover Crop Use on Prevented Planting Losses
AAEA members release new research in AJAE
A new study helps to substantiate the anecdotal observations of 2019 that fields where cover crops have been historically adopted were typically not prevented from being planted to cash crops, despite the excessively wet conditions that particular spring planting season. “Prevented planting resilience benefit” of cover crops is an additional “benefit” that help justify Federal conservation payment programs (e.g., like the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP)) encouraging adoption of this climate smart soil health practice.
In the new article “Understanding the Effect of Cover Crop Use on Prevented Planting Losses” published in the AJAE, the authors Sunjae Won of Auburn University, Roderick Rejesus and Barry Goodwin of North Carolina State University and Serkan Aglasan from Mehmet Akif Ersoy University and the University of Arizona, find out if cover crops help to reduce prevented planting losses in US crop production.
The authors say, “Our findings suggest that counties with higher cover crop adoption rates tend to have lower levels of crop insurance losses due to prevented planting. The resulting reduction in prevented planting risk also becomes larger with longer-term multi-year cover crop use. These results support the notion that cover crops improve soil conditions such that the likelihood and magnitude of prevented planting losses decrease.”
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