TY - JOUR T1 - Comparing cover crop use by horticultural and commodity producers JF - Journal of Soil and Water Conservation SP - 12A LP - 18A DO - 10.2489/jswc.2022.1219A VL - 77 IS - 1 AU - Robert L. Myers AU - Joseph LaRose Y1 - 2022/01/01 UR - http://www.jswconline.org/content/77/1/12A.abstract N2 - Starting in the winter of 2012–13, the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program began working with the Conservation Technology Information Center (CTIC) to conduct United States surveys about farmer experiences with cover crops; six surveys have been conducted to date. The American Seed Trade Association (ASTA) also participated in planning and supporting the surveys starting with the 2014–15 survey (CTIC 2015). Surveys were conducted in the winter months and published in spring or summer. They asked about farmer experiences the previous calendar year so were designated by the relevant fall-to-spring period. The first survey addressed the 2012 crop season (a major drought year in most US crop regions) and was labeled the 2012–13 survey (CTIC 2013). The most recent survey was about the 2019 crop (an extremely wet spring in the Midwest) and was identified as the 2019–20 survey (CTIC 2020). There were no surveys on the 2017 and 2018 crop seasons.Typically, there were more data from the annual surveys than could be thoroughly assessed or summarized in the annual reports, and the main emphasis of the annual reports has been on the experiences of commodity farmers with cover crops. While horticultural producers were usually about 20% of the population of farmers responding to the survey, this paper is the first attempt to more thoroughly compare the use of cover crops by horticultural producers versus commodity producers.The first survey (2012–13) was conducted both online and by … ER -