Abstract
AbstractSoil health is crucial to reaching high yields, and growing cover crops can help improve soil conditions. The goal of this study is to determine the effects of cover crops on soil health using potential respiration, potential nitrogen mineralization, and aggregates stability as indicators of soil health. The study has been conducted since 2019 at the University of Kentucky Spindletop Farm, Lexington, KY, and involves three landscape positions receiving a treatment with cereal rye, cereal rye–crimson clover mixture, and fallow soil. This study emphasized that cover crops can enhance potential respiration and microbial activity over landscape positions, with rye being more beneficial than the mixture treatment. However, cover crops were also beneficial for aggregate stability but not for potential nitrogen mineralization.
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