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Annual Net Returns to Cover Crops in Iowa

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  • Plastina, Alejandro
  • Liu, Fangge
  • Sawadgo, Wendiam
  • Miguez, Fernando E.
  • Carlson, Sarah
  • Marcillo, Guillermo

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Despite the active promotion of cover crops as a key conservation practice, their adoption is very limited. We developed a series of partial budgets based on a statewide survey of Iowa farmers to evaluate the changes in net returns resulting from the incorporation of cover crops into a corn or soybean production system. The average net returns to cover crops use for farmers that did not use cover crops for grazing livestock or forage were consistently negative across different planting and termination methods, tillage practices, and experience levels. Only farmers that used cover crops for grazing livestock or forage, and received cost-share payments tended to derive net positive returns from cover crops use. Our results can be used as benchmarks for current or potential cover croppers, and for ground-truthing agricultural and conservation policy design.

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  • Plastina, Alejandro & Liu, Fangge & Sawadgo, Wendiam & Miguez, Fernando E. & Carlson, Sarah & Marcillo, Guillermo, 2018. "Annual Net Returns to Cover Crops in Iowa," ISU General Staff Papers 201802280800001038, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
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    1. Plastina, Alejandro & Liu, Fangge & Sawadgo, Wendiam & Miguez, Fernando & Carlson, Sarah, 2018. "Partial Budgets for Cover Crops in Midwest Row Crop Farming," Journal of the ASFMRA, American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers, vol. 2018.
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