UnderstandingAg

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Planning Winter Cover Crop Rotations Maximizing cover crop benefits in the garden requires strong crop planning with strategic rotations coupled with creative improvision so it’s important to examine strategies and considerations for incorporating cover crops with no-till methods and inter-seeding.

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UnderstandingAg

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Fibrous-rooted species such as annual ryegrass and cereal grain crops help break up compaction near the surface. We want a mix of both warm- and cool-season cash crops and cover crops in the rotation. Diversifying the crop rotation creates additional opportunities to maximize ground cover.

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UnderstandingAg

JULY 31, 2023

Summer seeding is a great method for resting beds within your rotations. For example, if a fall-winter cash crop was turned over and immediately planted to a spring crop, the summer-winter mix is a good follow up to provide an extended period of rest through the winter. However, cold hardy cereal grains (i.e.,

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JULY 14, 2023

Including noncrop vegetation alongside crops may further increase genetic diversity in a geographic area, as with prairie strips or field borders and other conservation buffers within or adjacent to crop fields. And diversity may also include the temporal diversity of crop rotations.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 23, 2024

Without access to markets and appropriate infrastructure (think: organic grain elevators and slaughterhouses) growers can’t fetch added premiums for sustainable practices. As a result, smaller producers often face greater hurdles in adopting any practices that sit outside the mainstream.

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