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Ankit Yadav - Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture

Side-by-side comparison of soybean growing in two cover crop systems — left image shows soybeans emerging through thick cereal rye residue with minimal weed pressure; right image shows soybeans in a no-cover system with high weed presence between rows.

July 30, 2025

Managing Pigweeds with Cover Crops: What We’ve Learned from 30 Years of Data

By Vipin Kumar - Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Mandeep Singh - Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Resham Thapa - Assistant Research Professor of Climate Smart Agronomy, Tennessee State University, Ankit Yadav - Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Humberto Blanco - Professor of Soil Science, Sam Wortman - Assistant Professor of Agronomy, Saleh Taghvaeian - Biological Systems Engineering Associate Professor, Amit Jhala - Professor and Associate Department Head, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture