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Cover Crops Help Climate, Environment; Most Farmers Reject Them

Cover Crops Help Climate, Environment; Most Farmers Reject Them
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Cover crops help the climate and environment but most farmers say no Many fear losing money

Cover crops help the climate and environment but most farmers say no Many fear losing money
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Cover crops help the climate and environment but most farmers remain leery

Called cover crops, they top the list of tasks U.S. farmers are told will build healthy soil, help the environment and fight climate change.

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Cover crops help the climate and environment but most farmers say no

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Called cover crops, they top the list of tasks U.S. farmers are told will build healthy soil, help the environment and fight climate change.

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Cover crops help the climate and environment but most farmers say no Many fear losing money

Called cover crops, they top the list of tasks U.S. farmers are told will build healthy soil, help the environment and fight climate change. Researchers who used satellite data to examine over 90,000 fields in six Corn Belt states found cover crops can reduce yields of cash crops — the bushels per acre. “I don’t want to abandon it, but as far as just going whole-hog with planting cover crops, that’s a tough thing for me to do,” said Illinois farmer Doug Downs, who plants cover crops only on a sliver of his land in a relatively flat region of east-central Illinois.

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