AMES, Iowa 鈥 The results of a five-year study conducted by the Iowa Learning Farms, Iowa State University Extension and Practical Farmers of Iowa reinforced that cover crops added to a corn-soybean rotation have no negative effect on yield and result in statistically significant reductions in nitrate concentration in subsurface water.
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