Shoring up the Corn Belt's Soil Health With NASA Data

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 30, 2021

After the corn harvest last fall, Illinois farmer Paul Jeschke planted a fraction of his fields with cereal rye: 60 acres of the 4,500 he farms with his wife, nephew and brother-in-law, tucked behind a pasture, out of neighbors' sight. That way they could experiment with cover crops, Jeschke explained, and no one could view potential failures. In the coming months, the rye would sprout int