Location: Soil and Water Management Research
Project Number: 5062-12130-008-004-N
Project Type: Non-Funded Cooperative Agreement
Start Date: Oct 1, 2024
End Date: Sep 30, 2025
Objective:
Quantify agronomic and environmental outcomes of more diverse crop rotations and integrating kura clover living mulch into corn-soybean rotations in Minnesota.
Approach:
Cooperator will oversee implementation of alternative cropping systems on research plots located at cooperator facility Lamberton, Minnesota. When compared against the "business as usual" approach of corn and soybean grown in a two-year rotation, alternative cropping systems may represent more diverse rotations and / or inclusion of perennial living cover such as kura clover as a living mulch integrated into corn-soybean systems. Of particular interest is the comparison of quantity and quality of water present in subsurface tile drainage, which is common across much of the Upper Midwest.
