The adoption rates for cover crops vary across regions and how land is managed, according to USDA’s Economic Research Service.
Land in the Heartland region had adoption rates of around ten percent for all owner-operated, cash-rented, and share-rented fields. Land in the Northern Great Plains and Prairie Gateway regions had adoption rates of around four percent for owner-operated fields and 11 percent for cash-rented fields.
The rest of the country – any land outside of the Heartland, Great Plains, and Prairie Gateway Resource regions – had 30 percent cover crop adoption for fields operated by owner-operators and 16 percent of fields operated by cash renters, respectively.
No surveyed share-rented fields in the “rest of the country” region adopted cover crops.
According to the 2022 Census of Agriculture, 18.0 million acres of cover crops were planted in 2022, which has grown over the last decade.
NAFB news service
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