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Study Develops Optimal Cover Crop Adoption Thresholds

June 11, 2025 | Guest Author

Researchers have developed a new model that can suggest the optimal conditions for farmers to plant cover crops, or crops grown in between cash-crop seasons, to help ensure long-term cash-crop success. ...

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Returning to farming's roots in the battle against the 'billion-dollar beetle'

Returning to Farming’s Roots in the Battle Against the ‘Billion-Dollar Beetle’ | Agricultural and Resource Economics

July 21, 2020 | Guest Author

Rosemary Brandt, July 21, 2020 | Nicknamed the "billion-dollar beetle" for its enormous economic costs to growers in the United States each year, the western corn rootworm is one of the most devastating pests farmers face....

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Zachary Brown

June 8, 2020 | Patti Mulligan

Zachary Brown Associate Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics; GES Center Executive Committee Member College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Poole College of Management Contact Faculty page: https://cals.ncsu.edu/agricultural-and-resource-economics/people/zachary-brown/ | Email: zsbrown2@ncsu.edu | Phone: (919) 515-5969...

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