In The News
Cover Cropping Resource for Southern States
In a December 2025 Mississippi Soybean Promotion Board article, Dr. Larry G. Heatherly lauds the Southern Cover Crops Council for creating the Cover Crop Resource Guide. The guide provides information for 13 southern states on row crops, vegetables, and grazing and lists PSA’s Cover Crop Species Selector among valuable resources.
Cover Crop Benefits Depend on Biomass: How Much Do You Need?
Author Andrew McGuire explains that most of the benefits of cover crops are related to their biomass production. “Biomass is the measure of additional energy that cover crops put into the biological field-soil system.” He calls out online resources, including PSA’s Cover Crop Species Selector in this March 2025 publication of Washington State University’s Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Increasing Agricultural Yields, Efficiency, and Sustainability with AI
In July 2024, Tech Briefs magazine interviewed PSA Co-director Chris Reberg-Horton on why and how we’re building the Agricultural Image Repository, how a supercomputer is training AI to recognize plant species and phenotypes, the benefits to farmers of PSA’s low-cost technology, and more.