Soil Health and Nutrient Flows with Enhanced Cover Cropping and Soil Management: Soil Health Under 3 Years of Cover Crop Management

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posted on 2025-04-05, 01:08 authored by Melissa Stefun, Ray Weil

Data for topsoil (7cm depth) of two corn-soy rotation fields with different soil textures after being managed with cover crop treatments over three years at the Central Maryland Research and Education Center (CMREC) in Beltsville, MD. The purpose was to measure the effect of cover crop species and termination time on physical and chemical metrics of soil health.

Funding

USDA-NIFA: 2019-68012-29904

History

Data contact name

Stefun, Melissa

Data contact email

mstefun@umd.edu

Publisher

Ag Data Commons

Temporal Extent Start Date

2023-06-01

Temporal Extent End Date

2023-06-30

Theme

Not specified

Geographic location - description

Two corn/soybean fields at the CMREC in Beltsville, MD

ISO Topic Category

environment
farming

National Agricultural Library Thesaurus terms

soil quality; conservation practices; cover crops; crop rotation; soil management; topsoil; soil texture; Maryland; soil carbon; cover crop termination; soybeans; corn

OMB Bureau Code

005:20 - National Institute of Food and Agriculture

OMB Program Code

005:040 - National Research

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Public Access Level

Public

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Keywords

Cover crops Soil health Soil carbon Cover crop termination Soybean Corn

Licence

CC BY 4.0