An Agroecosystem Sustainability Center-led team has published its findings in the Journal of Experimental Botany.
Category: Secure & Sustainable Agriculture
ASC Director Receives Macelwane Medal; Named AGU Fellow
Kaiyu Guan also becomes an American Geophysical Union fellow.
Climate Win-Win: Enhanced Weathering
A new method developed by Leverhulme Centre researchers calculates the carbon-capture potential of basalt rock applied to cropland.
Climate-Smart Agriculture: A Q&A
Environmental Defense Fund’s Maggie Monast works to further climate-smart farming practices that curb harmful emissions, grow food sustainably, and earn stable profits.
New Method Has Promise for Accurate, Efficient Soil Carbon Estimates
Agroecosystem Sustainability Center researchers share the strategy and data publicly.
Cover Crop Management: Trade-Off between Carbon Benefits, Crop Yield
Ecosys model helps assess the impacts of winter cover cropping.
The Microbiome Connecting Thread: From Farm to Food to Human Health
IRAI seed-funded project explores how regenerative farming practices lead to healthier soils and ultimately healthier people via the human microbiome.
$5M USDA Grant Funds Illinois-Led Innovative Cover Cropping Project
Chowdhary will lead iCOVER: Innovated Cover-crop Opportunity, Verification, and Economy stimulating technology for underserved farmers using Robotics.
New Insights on Soil Carbon Budgets
Agroecosystem Sustainability Center research could simplify calculation of credits.