A drone broadcasts cover crop seeds into standing corn. This management practice can improve long-term soil health, prevent erosion, and reduce non-growing season greenhouse gas emissions. In the background, an eddy covariance tower and a flux-gradient tower monitor carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide emissions from the cropping system quasi-continuously and year-round.
My research has been monitoring greenhouse gas emissions at a commercial dairy farm in Fergus since 2024. This study aims to evaluate the impacts of beneficial management practice packages co-developed by researchers and farmers for nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide emissions mitigation while promoting crop yield
