This research plans to compare the productivity and profitability of double-crop soybean rotations with full-season soybean production following winter fallow or winter cover crops. Efforts determine the potential yield differences and limitations of soybean rotations that include winter cover crops when compared to a wheat soybean double-crop rotation, identify the primary risks and rewards of implementing winter cover crops into a soybean rotation rather than a standard full-season soybean production system or a winter wheat and soybean double-crop system and then provide economic analysis on the data obtained from field trials to identify the most profitable production system.
Key Benefactors:
farmers, agronomists, extension agents