1st Edition
Cover Crops and Sustainable Agriculture
Introduction to Cover Crops
Rafiq Islam, Nataliia Didenko, and Bradford Sherman
Benefits of Cover Crops on Agronomic Crop Yield
Kateryna Chorna
Potential and Challenges of Growing Cover Crops in Organic Production Systems
Sutie Xu, Sindhu Jagadamma, Renata Nave Oakes, Song Cui, Erin Byers, and Zhou Li
Cover Crops in Vegetable Production and Urban Farming in Sub-Saharan Countries
Michael Kwabena Osei, Mavis Akom, Joseph Adjebeng-Danquah, Kenneth Fafa Egbadzor, Samuel Oppong Abebrese, Kwabena Asare Bediako and Richard Agyare
Algorithms to optimize cropping diversity with cover crops
Romashchenko M., Matiash T. , Bohaienko V., Kovalchuk V., and Lukashuk V.
Sustainable suppression of weeds through ecological use of cover crops
Shawn T. Lucas
Cover crops for pests and soil-borne disease control and insect diversity
Nataliia Didenko, Vira Konovalova, Somayyeh Razzaghi, Alimata Bandaogo, Sougata Bardhan, and Alan Sundermeier
Cover Crops for Forages and Livestock Grazing
Riti Chatterjee
Cover crops’ effect on soil quality and soil health
M. A. Rahman
Cover Crops for Orchard Soil Management
Biswajit Das, B.K. Kandpal and H. Lembisana Devi
Cover Crop Mixes for Diversity, Carbon, and Conservation Agriculture
Reicosky, D.C., Ademir Calegari, Danilo Rheinheimer dos Santos, and Tales Tiecher
Cover crops and soil nitrogen cycling
Nitu, T.T., U.M. Milu, and M.M.R. Jahangir
Effect of Cover Crops on Soil Biology
Harit K. Bal
Cover cropping improves soil quality and physical properties
Yillmaz Bayhan
Cover Crops Effects on Soil Erosion and Water Quality
Beenish Saba and Ann D. Christy
Effects of cover crops on greenhouse gas emissions
Somayyeh Razzaghi
Cover crops influence soil microbial and biochemical properties
Amoakwah, E.
Economics of Cover Crops
Mohammad S. Rahman and James J. Hoorman
Biography
Rafiq Islam is the Director of the Soil, Water, and Bioenergy Resources Program at The Ohio State University South Centers, Ohio, USA. He has over 30 years of academic and research experience on soil and water quality, cover crops, conservation tillage, marginal land, and biofeedstock production. Dr. Islam is a Fulbright teaching scholar and has published over100 journal articles; written several factsheets, manuals, and book chapters; and edited two books.
Bradford Sherman is a publications editor with The Ohio State University, where his responsibilities include writing, editing, and the design of various publications within the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES). With over 14 years of writing and editing experience; he handles the distribution of a CFAES newsletter; has edited books, journal articles, and Extension education materials for national and international audiences.
