Crops > Costs & Returns > Profitability
Updated March, 2018
File A1-91
Economics of Cover Crops
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.
Other resources on cover crops include:
- Practical Farmers of Iowa: Grazing Cover Crops fact sheet
- Practical Farmers of Iowa cover crop information
- CARD Cover Crop website
- Economic Evaluation of Cover Crops in Midwest Row Crop Farming
- Iowa Learning Farms
William Edwards, retired ISU economist. Questions? Email agdm@iastate.edu
Alejandro Plastina, extension economist, 515-294-6160, plastina@iastate.edu
Meghan Filbert, livestock program manager, Practical Farmers of Iowa, 515-232-5661, meghan@practicalfarmers.org
