Cover Crop and Crop Rotation Effects on Cotton Production

Soil health promoting practices have been aggressively advertised in recent years. However, the synergies among various soil health promoting practices have not been well quantified. We evaluated the impact of tillage strategies (conventional, no-till, strip-till, and no-till with a wheat cover crop) and crop rotation (continuous cotton and cotton/sorghum rotation) on soil water storage, water use efficiency, and overall cotton production in the Texas Rolling Plains.