Aerially seeding cover crops in the northern US Corn Belt: Limitations, future research needs, and alternative practices

Agriculture & Biology

• Corn Belt region 100%
• cover crops 77%
• sowing 58%
• Secale 26%
• winter 23%
• soil erosion 21%
• soil structure 20%
• photosynthetically active radiation 20%
• coolers 19%
• heat sums 19%
• rye 17%
• leaching 17%
• soil organic matter 16%
• Glycine max 16%
• biomass production 15%
• weather 15%
• nitrates 14%
• Zea mays 14%
• growing season 14%
• climate 13%
• grasses 13%
• soybeans 12%
• corn 11%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• cover crop 94%
• seeding 78%
• maize 62%
• winter 21%
• photosynthetically active radiation 20%
• soil structure 19%
• cereal 19%
• soybean 19%
• cropping practice 17%
• soil organic matter 16%
• soil erosion 16%
• growing season 16%
• grass 15%
• leaching 13%
• nitrate 12%
• weather 12%
• biomass 10%
• simulation 7%