RegenPGC Webinars
Overview
2025 brings new perennial groundcover learning opportunities… As we pursue our research efforts to understand how perennial ground covers can be established and maintained within existing corn and soybean production systems, we strive to understand how perennial groundcover increases cropping system complexity.
As we enter the fourth year of our five-year USDA-NIFA-funded research project, we are gaining more and more insight into managing the interaction between the primary crop and the perennial groundcover to ensure competitive yields with traditional crop production methods.
In 2025, we have reached a point where we are ready to more comprehensively share our research with webinars and other forums tailored to farmers, crop advisors, technical service providers, government agencies (NRCS/DNR), and other agricultural scientists eager to understand the possibilities and challenges of integrating perennial groundcovers into their row crop agriculture. We hope you will join us in events we host throughout the next 24 months.
2025 Lunch and Learn Webinar Series
Unlocking the Potential of Perennial Groundcovers
in Corn and Corn/Soybean Production Systems
This webinar series defined perennial groundcover systems, explained its potential benefits, provided insight into how to effectively manage these systems, and discussed work being undertaken to make these systems more robust for widespread adoption and implementation. The presentations below were tailored for anyone wishing to understand the possibilities and challenges of integrating perennial groundcovers into their row crop agriculture.
Week 1. Perennial Groundcover Integration Into Corn & Soybean Production: System Basics & Potential Benefits
Perennial Groundcovers in Corn & Soybean Production Systems: Potential & Scalability (Raman, D.Raj)
An Operational Guide to Implementing a Perennial Groundcover in Corn & Soybean Production Systems (Moore, Kenneth & Hinz, Roger)
A Comparative Analysis of Time & Labor Demands Across Conventional, Cereal Rye, & Perennial Groundcover in Corn & Soybean Production Systems (Rockson, Philip)
Comparisons of Cost for Conventional, Cover Cropping, & Perennial Groundcover in Corn & Soybean Production Systems (Bartel, Cynthia)
Week 2. Perennial Ground Cover Suppression and Weed Management within Corn and Soybean Production Systems
Crop Zone Requirements (Moro, Amina)
Techniques for Maintaining a Crop Growth Zone in Corn & Soybean Production Systems (Lira, Sara & Wilson, Brent)
Chemical Weed Control Options in Perennial Groundcover Systems (Haramoto, Erin & Searcy, Kiera)
Week 3. Selecting perennial groundcovers for Corn and Soybean Production systems
Searching for Perfect Perennial Groundcover for Maize Production (Fei Shui-zhang)
Comparison of Unsuppressed Perennial Groundcover in Maize Intercropping Systems (Galland, Patrick)
Improving Perennial Groundcover Establishment with Nurse Crops, Seed Rates, and Hydrophilic Seed Coatings (Moran, Jack)
PGC on-farm in Nebraska (Schlautman, Brandon)
Week 4. CORN hybrid performance within perennial groundcover systems
Factors Driving “Brittle” Behavior in PGC Systems – Why Breeding Matters! (Raman, D.Raj)
Should we Breed for Corn in Perennial Groundcover? (Bilgici, Memiş & Lübberstedt, Thomas)
Evaluating Hybrid Performance in Perennial Groundcover Systems (Lira, Sara)
Week 5. Quantifying & Valorizing Ecosystem Service
Benefits for Perennial Groundcover in Corn & Soybean Production
Soil Moisture Results & Water Competition for Nitrogen in Perennial Groundcover Systems (McDaniel, Marshall)
Research on Grass Cover & Erosion Control (Olowoyeye)
Findings on Nitrogen Leaching Reduction (Rockson, Philip)
Federal Farm Bill Programs & Valorizing Ecosystem Services (Bartel, Cynthia)