Evaluating the potential use of winter cover crops in corn-soybean systems for sustainable co-production of food and fuel

Agriculture & Biology

• fuel production 96%
• cover crops 82%
• food production 74%
• rye 67%
• soybeans 55%
• winter 49%
• corn 46%
• biomass production 29%
• biofuels 15%
• Corn Belt region 11%
• famine 11%
• weather stations 11%
• food prices 11%
• net primary productivity 10%
• land use change 10%
• planting date 9%
• meteorological data 9%
• renewable energy sources 9%
• space and time 9%
• heat sums 9%
• angle of incidence 8%
• phytomass 8%
• agricultural land 8%
• feedstocks 7%
• nitrogen fertilizers 7%
• soil water 7%
• climate change 7%
• sowing 6%
• growing season 6%
• irrigation 6%
• planting 6%
• economics 5%
• crops 4%
• water 3%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• cover crop 100%
• soybean 81%
• maize 66%
• food 51%
• winter 45%
• biomass 22%
• planting 14%
• harvest 13%
• famine 9%
• biofuel production 9%
• renewable energy source 8%
• photosynthetically active radiation 8%
• seeding 8%
• data management 8%
• food production 7%
• weather station 7%
• water use 7%
• growing season 6%
• land use change 6%
• fertilizer 6%
• price 6%
• soil moisture 6%
• agricultural land 5%
• irrigation 5%
• crop 5%
• productivity 5%
• demand 4%
• economics 4%
• need 4%
• project 3%
• simulation 3%
• parameter 2%