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RegenPGC stands for Regenerating America’s Working Landscapes to Enhance Natural Resources and Public Goods through Perennial Groundcover (PGC). We are a transdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers with a shared vision of making year-round groundcover on working lands the norm, rather than the exception, for midwestern US agriculture and beyond. Central to our approach is the development and de-risking of perennial groundcover (PGC) systems, where a perennial cover crop is planted once and then persists for multiple years alongside annual crops such as corn and soybean.

By providing year-round groundcover, PGC can deliver multiple ecosystem services, including conserving soil resources, reducing nutrient export, enhancing carbon sequestration, and suppressing weeds thereby reducing herbicide requirements. Compared to conventional cover cropping, a PGC approach has lower management requirements, and this could facilitate widespread adoption. Widespread adoption is critical to making a measurable difference to large-scale environmental issues.