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After Floridas farmers harvest a wide array of summer crops, the fields do not lie dormant for long. The big five cashcrops for winter in Florida are leafy greens, strawberries, tomatoes, bell peppers, and blueberries. In Florida, we call the winter growing season the “second season” of agriculture.
They can also be added to croprotations to improve soil health in fields that have been degraded from growing the same thing year after year. Cover cropping is a means of increasing soil fertility without chemicals. How do cover crops work? What are the drawbacks of using cover crops?
Planning Winter Cover CropRotations 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.
Regenerative farmers adopt a range of practices, such as cover cropping, croprotation, reduced tillage, and diverse planting, to regenerate the soil and promote natural systems within their farms. Cover cropping : Cover crops are strategically planted in between cashcrops or during fallow periods.
Lastly, ever increasing crop yields over the decades has meant more calcium (Ca 2+ ), magnesium (Mg 2+ ) and potassium (K + ) leaves the field at harvest, which has the same effect as them leaching in high rainfall areas because H + is allowed to reign, and the balance of positively charged nutrients is thrown out of whack.
Summer seeding is a great method for resting beds within your rotations. For example, if a fall-winter cashcrop 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.
This is especially important to encourage long-term quality plant nutrition and greater harvest yields. According to the University of Tennessee’s Institute of Agriculture , soil testing should be done on all crop types anytime a nutrient deficiency is detected or at the start of croprotation.
Be sure not to over-harvest and give enough time for your crop to regrow. Alternatively, if you are using rotational grazing methods the plants your livestock consume today will regrow if given time by moving them to a different area to graze. This is one of the highest quality feeds for livestock as well as a cashcrop.
The Illinois-based Saving Tomorrow’s Agricultural Resources (STAR) Program sets standards for regenerative practices such as croprotation, tillage, and nutrient applications. Several Western and Midwestern states, however, have managed to promote conservation-minded practices through modest incentives.
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