The Ohio State University will receive $749,939 under a three-year Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture to study cover crops in the Western Lake Erie Basin through the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) competitive grants program. The University will identify management practices and biophysical conditions impacting cover crop biomass production and soil health, quantify within-field variability in cover crops and cash crop yields using remote sensing and machine learning models, develop a biogeochemical model to project effects on yields, carbon sequestration, and greenhouse gas emissions at the watershed scale, and create an extension curriculum to train farmers and stakeholders on best management practices for cover cropping based on study outcomes. The goals are to better understand factors contributing to cash crop yield declines after cover crops and identify subsequent management strategies to address yield gaps and increase adoption.
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