04/02/2026

Peer-reviewed Publications (50 listed)

1. Abdelrhim, AS; Higgins, DS; Hausbeck, MK. 2025. Barley as an Alternative Host of Stemphylium vesicarium in Michigan Onions and Susceptibility of Poaceae Cover Crops. Plant Health Progress 26:507-515. http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/PHP-01-25-0036-RS


2. Ashworth, A.J., A. Tyson, T. Prospt, L. Marshall, J.J. Volenec, M.D. Casler, M.T. Berti, E. van Santen, V. Picasso, J.L. Foster, and J. Su. 2025. Knowledge graph applications for identifying resilient forage systems.  Agricultural & Environmental Letters. DOI: 10.1002/ael2.70021


3. Barker, R.W., M.J. Helmers, M.D. McDaniel. 2025. Cover crops can mitigate no-tillage-induced labile phosphorus stratification. Soil Science Society of America Journal 89 (3), e70063.


4. Bergquist, G., C. Sheaffer, M. Rakkar, D. Wyse, J. Jungers, and J. Gutknecht. 2025. Soil microbial and plant biomass carbon allocation within perennial and annual grain cropping systems. Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Environment. 383, 109535.


5. Blanco‐Canqui, H., Ruis, S.J., Mamo, M., Shapiro, C.A., Proctor, C., Parsons, J. and Thompson, L., 2025. Interseeding cover crop into an irrigated sandy loam for 6 years: Soil, crop, and economic response. Agronomy Journal, 117(1), p.e70013.


6. Berti M.T., Morocho-Lema, M., Anderson, J.V., and Lizarazo-Torres, C. 2025. Nitrogen rates affect seed yield and carbon intensity in spring and winter camelina. Ind Crops Prod. 233 Doi://doi.org/10.106/j.indcrop.2025.121473


7. Berti, M.T., Morocho-Lema, M., and Anderson, J.V., 2025. Sensitivity of winter and spring camelina to salinity during germination. Ind. Crops Prod. 232: 121293 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indcrop.2025.121293


8. Cavadini, J.S., and E.J. Kladivko. 2025. Oilseed radish/cereal cover crop bicultures and soil phosphorus distribution. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224561.2024.2429960


9. Chatterjee, A., Thorp, K.R., O’Brien, P.L., Kovar, J., Rogovska, N., Malone, R.W., 2025. Long-term DSSAT simulation of nitrogen loss to artificial subsurface drainage flow for a corn-soybean rotation with winter rye in Iowa. Agricultural Water Management, 312, 109464. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2025.109464


10. Chen, K. 2025. High-resolution Winter Cover Crop Mapping with PlanetScope Imagery: Comparative Analysis of Random Forest, Convolutional Neural Network, and Unsupervised Classification. Science of Remote Sensing, 100351.


11. Chudzik, G., Yu, E., Tangen, B., Werle, R. 2025. Cereal Rye Cover Crop Biomass Guide: A Practical Resource for Practitioners.


12. Chudzik, G., Nunes, J.J., Arneson, N.J., DeWerff, R.P., de Sousa Ferreira, V., Proctor, C., Stoltenberg, D.E., Conley, S. and Werle, R., 2025. Postemergence giant ragweed management as affected by soil and cover crop management, soybean planting time, and preemergence herbicide application. Weed Technology, 39, p.e19.


13. Crespo, C., Malone, R. W., Radke, A., Kovar, J. L., Emmett, B. D., Feyereisen, G. W., Thorp, K. R., Richard, T., & O'Brien, P. L. (2025). Rye performance in central Iowa under different seeding and nitrogen fertilizer rates. Agronomy Journal, 117, e70112. https://doi.org/10.1002/agj2.70112


14. Datta, A., Wilke, B., Charles, C., Hasenick, M., Ulbrich, T., Singh, M., Sears, M., & Robertson, G. P. Crop performance and profitability for the initial transition years of a regenerative cropping system in the Upper Midwest United States. Journal of Environmental Quality. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeq2.70084


15. Douridas, A., & Hawkins, E. (2025). Quantifying the effect of tillage and cover crops on soil moisture and temperature in central Ohio. Journal of the National Association of County Agricultural Agents, 18(1). https://www.nacaa.com/file.ashx?id=8521b6a1-d232-42b8-8ed8-4ff3103f7f12


16. du Preez, G; Loggenberg, A; Fourie, D; Marcelo-Silva, J; Martin, T; Ramphisa-Nghondzweni, D; Smith, H; Sprunger, C. 2025. Context Matters: Soil Ecosystem Status Varies across Diverse Conservation Agriculture Systems Journal of oil Science and Plant Nutrition 25:2576-2589. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42729-025-02285-3      


17. Dutter, C.R., M.D. McDaniel, M.P. Davis, T.A. Middleton, S. Gailans, S. Carlson. 2025. Cover crops have positive and negative effects on soil properties and crop yield over a 15‐year timespan. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 89(2), e70032.


18. Ferreira de Almeida, T., Canisares, L. P., Robinson, E., Pesini, G., Poffenbarger, H., & Basche, A. 2025. Cover crops did not change optimal corn nitrogen rate over three variable precipitation seasons in the Western Corn Belt. Agronomy Journal, 117(4), p.e70129. https://doi.org/10.1002/agj2.70129


19. Frey, TS; Shah, DA; Lindsey, LE; Sprunger, C; Lopez-Nicora, HD; Ponce, MSB. 2025. Crop rotation and a rye cover crop have minor impacts on soil health, microbial communities, and soybean yield in Ohio. FRONTIERS IN SOIL SCIENCE 5:1535734. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsoil.2025.1535734


20. Garg, A., Kwakye, S., Cates, A., Peterson, H., Labine, K., Olson, G., & Sharma, V. (2025). Field-saturated and near-saturated soil hydraulic conductivity as influenced by conventional and soil health management systems. Soil and Tillage Research 248. doi: 10.1016/j.still.2025.106467


21. Garg, A., Kwakye, S., Cates, A., Peterson, H., Labine, K., Olson, G., & Sharma, V. (2025). Integrated soil health management influences soil properties: Insights from a US Midwest study. Geoderma, 455. doi: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117214


22. Gesch, R.W., Eberle, C.A., Berti, M.T., Ott, M., and Anderson J.V. 2025. Productivity and seasonal water use of double cropped dry bean, proso millet, and sunflower after early maturing winter camelina. Ind. Crop Prod.229 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indcrop.2025.120953


23. Hussain, M. Z., Hamilton, S. K., Basso, B., & Robertson, G. P. (2025). Phosphorus budgets of intensively managed row crops at a long-term agroecosystem research site in the upper US Midwest. Journal of Environmental Quality. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeq2.70000


24. Karki, S., Shrestha, R., Lal, R., Lorenz, K., & Lindsey, L. E. (2025). Effects of biochar and cover crops on physical properties of two soils in Ohio. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 89, e70041. https://doi.org/10.1002/saj2.70041


25. Kundert, J., J. Jungers, J. Gamble, G. Bergquist, and J. Gutknecht. Temporal Variability of Soil Properties Under Annual and Perennial Continuous Living Cover: Weather Controls and Management Effects. Soil Science Society of America Journal. Accepted.


26. Klopp, H.W., Blanco-Canqui, H., Jasa, P., Slater, G. and Ferguson, R.B., 2025. Lessons about soil health and corn yield after a decade of cover crop and corn residue management. Field Crops Research, 326, p.109860.


27. Kumar, V., Singh, M., Thapa, R., Yadav, A., Blanco-Canqui, H., Wortman, S.E., Taghvaeian, S. and Jhala, A.J., 2025. Implications of cover crop management decisions on Amaranthus species density and biomass in temperate cropping systems: a meta-analysis. Weed Science, 73, p.e28.


28. Maia, L.O.R, S.D. Armstrong, E.J. Kladivko, B.G. Young, & W.G. Johnson (2025). Influence of cover crop termination strategies on weed suppression, concentration of residual herbicides in the soil, and soybean yield. Weed Science 43 (1), e86


29. Maia, L.O.R, S.D. Armstrong, E.J. Kladivko, B.G. Young, & W.G. Johnson. 2025. Influence of cover crop use on soil microbial activity and fate of sulfentrazone, s-metolachlor, cloransulam-methyl, atrazine, and mesotrione. Weed Science 73(1), e42


30. Maia, L. O., Armstrong, S. D., Kladivko, E. J., Young, B. G., & Johnson, W. G. 2025. Impact of simulated rainfall on atrazine wash off from roller crimped and standing cereal rye (Secale cereale L.) residue onto the soil. Frontiers in Agronomy, 7, 1574497.


31. Makhtoumi, Y; Aragon, NU; Lark, TJ. 2025. Opportunities for water quality improvements in a Mississippi River Basin watershed: Hotspots for agricultural conservation practices. Journal of Environmental Management 393:126797. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.126797


32. Marquart-Pyatt, ST; Beethem, K; Guo, T. 2025. Understanding the Drivers of Biological and Technological Practice Adoption by United States Midwest Farmers. Society and Natural Resources. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2025.2578785


33. McDaniel, M.D., P. Mohammadiarvejeh, G. Hu, T.E. Middleton. 2025. What regulates decomposition in agroecosystems? Insights from reading the tea leaves. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 9, 1665233.


34. Moran, Jack L., A. Susana Goggi, Kenneth J. Moore, Shuizhang Fei, and Shelby Gruss. Groundcover establishment through seed rate, seed ratio, and hydrophilic seed coating.  Agronomy 2019, 9, 458; doi:10.3390/agronomy9080458.


35. Moran, Jack, A. Susana Goggi, Ken J. Moore, and Shuizhang Fei.   Investigating seed treatments and soil amendments to improve the establishment of kentucky bluegrass as a perennial groundcover.  Seeds 4: 16, DOI:10.3390/seeds4010016.


36. Olowoyeye, Olowoyeye & Kaleita, Amy. (2026). Towards modeling soil erosion in a perennial groundcover (PGC) system. Ecological Modeling, 511. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2025.111365


37. Oys, E., Krupek, F. S., Proctor, C., Koehler-Cole, K., & Basche, A. 2025. Exploring how multi-year cover crop use alters above and belowground weed communities in limited tillage corn–soybean systems. Frontiers in Agronomy, 7, p.1575785. https://doi.org/10.3389/fagro.2025.1575785


38. Pearsons, K.A., Y. Rui, and E.J. Kladivko. 2025. Decade-long cereal rye cover cropping improved soil carbon and physical properties of a poorly structured sil loam. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 89:e70165. https://doi.org/10.1002/saj2.7016


39. Robertson, G. P., Wilke, B., Ulbrich, T., Haddad, N. M., Hamilton, S. K., Baas, D. G., Basso, B., Blesh, J., Boring, T. J., Campbell, L., Cassida, K. A., Charles, C., Chen, J., Doll, J. E., Guo, T., Kravchenko, A. N., Landis, D. A., Marquart-Pyatt, S. T., Singh, M. P., Sprunger, C. D., & Stegink, J. (2024). The LTAR Cropland Common Experiment at the Kellogg Biological Station. Journal of Environmental Quality. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeq2.2063


40. Rogovska, N., Kovar, J. L., Malone, R., O'Brien, P., Emmett, B., & Ruis, S. J. (2025). Impact of tillage, cover crop, and in situ bioreactors on nutrient loss from an artificially drained Midwestern Mollisol. Journal of Environmental Quality, 54: 590-604. https://doi.org/10.1002/jeq2.20668


41. Seavers, R., & Quinn, D. J. 2025. Corn response to early‐and late‐vegetative nitrogen applications following a rye cover crop in Indiana. Agronomy Journal, 117(5), e70173.


42. Seavers, R., & Quinn, D. J. 2025. Corn establishment and yield response to after‐market closing wheels in a rye cover crop system. Crop, Forage & Turfgrass Management, 11(2), e70069.


43. Shiferaw, A., Birru, G., Tadesse, T., Wardlow, B., Awada, T., Jin, V., Schmer, M., Freidenreich, A. and Iqbal, J., 2025. Geographical Variation in Cover Crop Management and Outcomes in Continuous Corn Farming System in Nebraska. Agriculture, 15(16), p.1776.


44. Silva, T.S., L.C. Malone, M.D. Ruark, C.D. Lee, D. Jordan, H.J. Poffenbarger, H.J. Kandel, J. Ross, J.M. Gaska, J.G. Lauer, L.E. Lindsey, M.P. Singh, M.A. Licht, M. Plumblee, R.A. Vann, R. Werle, S. Mourtzinis, S.L. Naeve, T.L. Roberts, and S.P. Conley. 2026. Impacts of rotation, tillage, cover cropping, and drainage on soil health in soybean-based cropping systems: Evidence from 4–50-year trials across the US. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2025.109950


45. Silva, TS; Malone, LC; Ruark, MD; Mourtzinis, S; Lee, CD; Jordan, D; Kandel, HJ; Ross, J; Gaska, JM; Lauer, JG; Lindsey, LE; Singh, MP; Licht, MA; Plumblee, M; Vann, RA; Werle, R; Naeve, SL; Roberts, TL; Conley, SP. 2025. Soybean yield response to management practices (4–40 years) and soil health parameters. Field Crops Research 329:109959. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2025.109959                                    


46. Sutton, E; Snapp, S; Morrone, V; Blesh, J. 2025. Cover crop functional trait plasticity in response to soil conditions and interspecific interactions. Plant and Soil 514:1489-1506. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11104-025-07471-x


47. Omonode, R. A., and E.J. Kladivko. 2025. Subsurface drainage intensity effects on soil physical characteristics, plant biomass production, and carbon balance. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 89, e70106. https://doi.org/10.1002/saj2.70106


48. Thapa, V. R., Koehler‐Cole, K., Easterly, A., La Menza, N. C., Pacheco, G. E., McKinley, B., & Basche, A. 2025. Biomass and forage nutritive value of spring‐planted cover crops in a semiarid region. Agronomy Journal, 117(5), p.e70154. https://doi.org/10.1002/agj2.70154


49. Wehrbein, C. and Wortman, S.E., 2025. Cover Crop Windbreaks Can Slow Deterioration of Biodegradable Mulch Film and Increase Bell Pepper Yield. HortScience 60:1802-1810.


50. Tangen, B. L., Vetsch, J. A., Johnson, G. A., Strock, J. S., Daigh, A. L. M., Phillips, C. L., & Cates, A. M. 2025. Soil health management system impacts on dynamic soil hydraulic functions before and after rainfall. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 394: 109839.