Heavy rain in Southwest Michigan highlights benefits of cover crops, MSU says

Heavy rain in Southwest Michigan highlights benefits of cover crops, MSU says

Conservation research at Michigan State University is helping to understand what management practices are needed to handle wetter springs. Director of MSU’s Long-Term Agroecosystem Project Phil Robertson tells Brownfield, “Unlike elsewhere, we’re not getting less precipitation.”  “We’re getting a bit more precipitation, and more importantly, that precipitation is coming in bigger events, bigger rainfall events, bigger storms,” he […] The post He…