Digging Deeper into Cover Crops & N2O Emissions

Hosted by Bonnie McGill and Jean Brokish (American Farmland Trust)

Cover cropping is a key practice for building soil health and reducing nitrate leaching, but a pair of short-duration studies on Illinois fields suggested that cover crops may increase nitrous oxide (N2O, a greenhouse gas) emissions. In this session we will dig deeper into the scientific literature to understand the impacts of cover crops on N2O, and we’ll discuss potential nitrogen trade-offs of cover crops. We’ll use plain English to understand the larger trends of cover crops and N2O. Register for this event here.