Earlier this year, 205 custom operators and farm managers in Iowa responded to the annual Iowa farm custom rate survey that is coordinated by Iowa State University ag economists.

In this edition:

• Conservation Agriculture: Helping to Return to Within Planetary Boundaries
• Soil Structure Changes Under Reduced Tillage and Cover Cropping Enhance Carbon Mineralization in Mediterranean Croplands
• Cover Cropping Increases the Abundance of Mycorrhizal and Endophytic Fungi Structures Associated with Ecosystem Functioning
• Conservation Agriculture: A Review of Plant Residue use with Zero Tillage and Crop Rotation
• Unlocking Climate Resilience by Exploring the Mitigation Potential of Improved Rotation with Cover Cropping

In this edition:

• Sixty years of crop diversification with perennials improves yields more than no-tillage in Ohio grain cropping systems
• Conservation Tillage Practices on GHG Emissions, Soil Health and Overall Agricultural Sustainability
• Long-term continuous no-till corn-soybean systems: Examining soil carbon sequestration and nitrogen accumulation across various pools
• Assessing the agricultural, environmental, and economic effects of crop diversity management: A comprehensive review on crop rotation and cover crop practices
• Cover Crops Optimize Soil Fertility and Soybean Productivity in the Cerrado of MATOPIBA, Brazil
• Short-term no-tillage improves soil water retention and maintains soil aeration at high moisture conditions despite reduced macroporosity
• Tillage Radish as Cover Crop Improves Soil Health Indicators Depending on Pedoclimatic Conditions.

In this edition:

• Exploring Soil Hydro-Physical Improvements Under No-Tillage: A Sustainable Approach for Soil Health.
• Conservation agriculture: A pathway to achieving sustainable development goals.
• Resource Conservation Technologies for Mitigating Climate Change Impacts in Agriculture: A Review.
• Ch. 18 Soil Conservation.
• Ch. 16 Climate Resilient Agriculture: The Perspective of Conservation Agricultural Practice.

In this edition:

• Soil health and conservation
• In-season temporal variability of soil carbon and nitrogen pools after half a century of a tillage and crop rotation gradient.
• Soil organic matter: The heart of soil health.
• Cover Crops and Sustainable Agriculture.
• Soil health and disturbance-based classification of farming systems.
• Chapter 11. Cover Crop Mixes for Diversity, Carbon and Conservation Agriculture.
• Soil Organic Carbon Sequestration and Distribution, Soil Biological Characteristics, and Winter Wheat Yields Under Different Tillage Practices in Long-Term Field Experiment.

In this edition:

• No-Tillage System: A genuine Brazilian technology that meets current global demands
• Nature’s laws of declining soil productivity and Conservation Agriculture.
• Soil carbon storage or sustainable conservation agriculture practices—Which should be our goal?

In this edition:

• Can the global drone revolution make agriculture more sustainable? Rapid growth in drone use is upending expectations but also inducing trade-offs.
• Tillage and residue management modulate the links between soil physical signatures and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal biomarkers.
• Mapping the conceptual and intellectual structure of soil health research (1996–2021): a terms co-occurrence and co-cited reference network analysis.
• Suggestions for promoting SOC storage within the carbon farming framework: Analyzing the INFOSOLO database.