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What Cover Crop Trials Revealed on Massachusetts and Connecticut Farms - See the results!

Join AFT staff in celebrating the completion of our 5-year cover crop on-farm demonstration trial project. This trial included 14 farms from across the country, addressing a variety of regional cover crop establishment or termination challenges. You may view the full national webinar here:    • What Cover Crop Trials Revealed on 14 Farm...  . For this video, we specifically highlight the results from one Massachusetts farmer and two Connecticut farmers who participated in this trial. Timestamps: 0:00 – 5:05 / Project design overview by Dr. Michelle Perez, principal investigator 5:05 – 11:53 / An overview of our data collection methods for soils, economic, and social data by Aysha Tapp Ross, Soil Health & Microbial Scientist and Project Lead 11:53 – End / Caro Roszell presents the New England farms’ trial design, lessons learned, and their state-specific soil and economic results Conquering Cover Crop Challenges from Coast to Coast project, funded through a CIG On-Farm Trials grant of $2.6 million, tested innovative solutions that help overcome regional and crop-specific barriers to cover crop adoption on 14 farms in five states and three geographic regions. The project includes 5 years of evaluation of comprehensive soil, economic, and social factors and outcomes. Specifically, the demonstration project is: ✅ Addressing cover crop establishment challenges unique to high value, high-input specialty crops, and high disturbance vegetable row cropping in water-limited valleys in California by demonstrating the benefits of cover crop and compost adoption; ✅ Diversifying the traditional corn-soybean rotation and enhancing soil health in Kentucky by converting from a typical corn-bean system to a diversified rotation of corn-rye-soybeans-cover crop; the rye will be no-till planted into corn residue, with most farms already using conservation tillage; ✅ Addressing cover crop timing and termination challenges in cool, humid regions in (1) New York by demonstrating the benefits of a technique called “planting green” and (2) in Connecticut and Massachusetts, demonstrating how shorter maturity silage corn varieties can improve cover crop establishment in systems currently using or interested in adopting no-till practices; ✅ Optimizing nitrogen inputs to cover crop integration through adaptive management as part of the overall Soil Health Management System in New York. Learn more: https://farmland.org/conquering-cover... soil health, on‑farm research, sustainable agriculture, farm economics, soil carbon, farmer research, USDA NRCS #CoverCrops #SoilHealth #SustainableAgriculture #RegenerativeAgriculture #Farming #NoFarmsNoFood