Cover Crops

No-Till, Strip-Till and Cover Crops Research Journal - April 2026

Each month, the conservation ag group at Cornell University offers an analysis of the latest scientific papers dealing with conservation agriculture research from around the world. For this on-going web series, our editors will be selecting several research papers from the Cornell list that will be of special interest to North American no-tillers, strip-tillers and cover croppers.

In this edition:

  • Conservation Agriculture: Helping to Return to Within Planetary Boundaries
  • Soil Structure Changes Under Reduced Tillage and Cover Cropping Enhance Carbon Mineralization in Mediterranean Croplands
  • Cover Cropping Increases the Abundance of Mycorrhizal and Endophytic Fungi Structures Associated with Ecosystem Functioning
  • Conservation Agriculture: A Review of Plant Residue use with Zero Tillage and Crop Rotation
  • Unlocking Climate Resilience by Exploring the Mitigation Potential of Improved Rotation with Cover Cropping

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Educating Landowners About Benefits of Cover Crops, No-Till

For the second straight year, Starkey was hosting an event where he invited landowners from all over the state to come and learn about no-till and cover crops and why it is in their best interest to encourage the farmers they rent land to, to switch to no-till and adopt cover crops and other conservation practices.
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Video of the Week: Strip-Till Innovator Experiments with Cover Crops

Time now for our Video of the Week. This one comes to us from our good friend Chris Perkins in Otwell, Ind. When I visited the Strip-Till Innovator a couple years ago, he wasn’t using cover crops. But Chris is an innovator because he’s always willing to try new things. Fast forward to 2026, he’s giving cover crops a try.
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Want to Reduce Your Land Rental Expenses?

Award-winning no-tiller Mike Starkey educates his tenants on how he’s caring for their land – and was ‘perfect from the line’ in getting rent reductions in this tough economy.
Award-winning no-tiller Mike Starkey educates his tenants on how he’s caring for their land – and was ‘perfect from the line’ in getting rent reductions in this tough economy.
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Sartell, Minn. grower & dairyman Alex Udermann says the diverse mix of conservation strategies has given his family financial & natural ‘freedom’ to farm

Sartell, Minn. grower & dairyman Alex Udermann says the diverse mix of conservation strategies has given his family financial & natural ‘freedom’ to farm


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