Adjusting Cover Crop Strategies to Adapt to Warming Climate

Thor Oechsner arrives at one of his wheat fields about 9 miles west of Cornell University’s Ithaca campus with a laugh and a shrug. “It’s not all turnip flowers,” Cornell Extension support specialist Kristen Loria responds in answer to the farmer’s good-natured, nonverbal admonishment. She’s referring to the bright blooms of yellow rockets that are…