Resources

Cover Crop Economics Tool

The decision tool, Economics of Cover Crops, provides worksheets to analyze three different cover crop scenarios:

- Projected economic costs and benefits of crop crops without grazing or harvesting
- Projected economic costs and benefits of crop crops with grazing or harvesting
- Actual economic costs and benefits resulting from cover crops, including grazing or harvesting.

Extension & Outreach Ag Decision Maker: An agricultural economics and business web site

Iowa State University Extension's Ag Decision Maker provides content to help producers better understand the costs of agricultural decisions.

Iowa NRCS - Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP)

Environmental Quality Incentives Program

Iowa NRCS Practice effects diagram - Cover crops (Practice Code 340)

NRCS diagram that qualifies various ecosystem effects and management outcomes associated with cover crops.

Iowa State University Corn Nitrogen Rate Calculator: Finding the Maximum Return To N and Most Profitable N Rate

This web site provides a process to calculate economic return to N application with different nitrogen and corn prices and to find profitable N rates directly from recent N rate research data. The method used follows a regional approach for determining corn N rate guidelines that is implemented in several Corn Belt states.

Iowa State University Extension & Outreach - Cover Crops

Iowa State University archive of cover crop related research and management outreach.

Iowa State University Extension & Outreach - The economic value of cover crops (Iowa Learning Farm)

Overview of various economic benefits associated with the use of cover crops. 

Midwest Cover Crops Council (MCCC): Cover Crop Information

The Midwest Cover Crops Council site provides information currently available on the use of cover crops in the Midwestern United States. The Council's goal is to expand upon the available information by working together as a regional collective of researchers, educators, farmers, and agribusinesses, ultimately leading to an increase in the use of cover crops on agricultural lands.