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Cash crop

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Synopsis: Agribusiness: Crop: Cash crop:

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but they do reap benefits from them including increased yields of cash crops like corn and soybeans.

and legumes are planted usually in the interval between the harvesting and planting of cash crops. Sending their roots down into bare soil cover crops can increase soil carbon provide slow-release nitrogen

But a cover-crop/cash crop system is complex. If not managed properly cover crops can deprive cash crops of water

or even reduce yields. Although they make sense in theory many have wondered how cover crops would work in the real world.

And the advantages for cash crops planted after cover crops were even greater in states hit hard by drought.

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