rye cover crop after corn harvest
Karly Regan, a Ph.D. student at Penn State University, studies organic row crops and arthropod pest management in corn. In Pennsylvania she works in extension with Amish and Mennonite communities to help them apply modern entomological principles within their communities’ technological practices. Here, a rye cover crop grows in an Amish farm field after the corn harvest. (Photo credit: Karly Regan)