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Cover crop adoption rates on owner-operated and cash-rented fields higher than on share-rented land across commodity type, 2015–2021

Bar chart comparing cover crop adoption rates for corn, barley, sorghum, soy, and cotton crops on owner-operated, cash-rented, and share-rented land in two survey years.

Using Agricultural Resource Management Survey data from 2011 to 2021, USDA, Economic Research Service researchers found conservation tillage systems were adopted on cash- and share-rented fields as often as on owner-operated farmland. When it came to planting cover crops, however, the analysis was mixed.

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