USDA Examines Cover Crop Persistence Across Four U.S. Datasets, Finding Rising Aggregate Use Masks High Turnover
March 03, 2026
March 03, 2026
WASHINGTON, March 3 (TNSLrpt) -- USDA's Economic Research Service report "Persistence of Cover Crop Use in Crop Production in the United States, 2012-2022" (EIB-293, March 2026) by Bryan Pratt, Laura Paul, Maria Bowman, Kent Messer, and Paul Ferraro analyzes cover crop adoption and repeated use (persistence) using four panel datasets: Census of Agriculture (2012, 2017, 2022), Farm Service Agency Crop Acreage Reporting Database (CARD, 2013-19), Indiana windshield survey (2014-19), . . .
