Cover Crops and Conservation Tillage: Rainfall Partitioning and Sedimentation Benefits.

Highly-weathered, low carbon, Coastal Plain soils of the Southeast have been intensively cropped, traditionally managed under conventional tillage systems, and are susceptible to runoff and erosion. We will present data from two Coastal Plain loamy sand soils managed to conventional- and conservation-tillage systems with and without a residue cover crop to demonstrate and quantify the value of cover crops in terms of rainfall partitioning (infiltration, runoff) improvement and sediment reductions.