A Cropping Systems Approach to Increase Farmer Profitability, Reduce Nutrient Losses and Improve Soil Health in Soybean and Corn Production

Research on conservation practices is often focused on single components within a cropping system, such as cover crop versus no-cover crop or time of cover crop termination. To accelerate the adoption of improved practices, farmers could benefit from synthesized holistic and logistically feasible cropping systems. Iowa Soybean Association will promote the adoption of newly synthesized cropping systems that increase profitability, reduce nutrient losses, and improve soil health. Project objectives include characterizing profitability and natural resource outcomes for improved cropping systems and developing new economic insights, natural resource conservation, and improved cropping system stability via crop modeling and statistical analysis.