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.

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. Image: University of Nebraska Extension.

Farmers around the world are facing the urgent question of how to sustainably feed a global population expected to reach 9.7 billion by 2050 — and the answer, in part, might be found …