Can Taller Cover Crops Help Clean the Water in Farm Country?
Civil Eats
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Instead, he wants his cattle to harvest their own feed via managed rotational grazing, even in the winter. It turns out a system that relies less on row crops isn’t just good for a time- and resource-strapped young farmer. Iowa farmers, for example, apply it on 87 percent of their fields at a rate of 149 pounds per acre.
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