The fifth annual cover crop survey by the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program and the Conservation Technology Information Center draws on the insight of 2,102 farmers—88% of whom reported using cover crops and 12% who identified themselves as non-users—from across the U.S. Cereal rye remained the top choice of farmers for cover cropping, followed by oats and radish. Sixty-five percent of the cover crop users reported planting mixes in 2016. Modest but statistically significant yield gains were seen once again in corn (2.3 bushels per acre, or 1.3%) and soybeans (2.1 bushels, or 3.8%) following cover crops. As in each of the previous surveys, plantings of cover crops maintained a steady increase to an average of 400 acres per participant, and projections are that the figure will increase to 451 acres in 2017.