Cover crops are planted in the fall and stay on fields over the winter, covering the ground with foliage and holding soil in place with their roots. These assets help to slow soil erosion and reduce nitrate leaching, thereby improving water quality. They also improve soil health and productivity and suppress weeds. Many farmers are seeking management advice about implementing cover crops into their corn-soybean rotations.

The Iowa Soybean Association On-Farm Network® today released a fungicide management calculator tool it has developed to help growers determine the probability of seeing a profitable return from using fungicides on soybeans.