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Regenerative Gardening, No-Till Winter Cover Crop Strategies

UnderstandingAg

Identifying Opportunities and Planning Successful cover cropping starts with a strong crop plan and requires additional planning around cash-crop termination and no-till seeding methods. This is generally accomplished by mechanically removing plants by flail mowing, tillage, cultivation equipment, or by manual labor.

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Commentary: America’s Cropland – Talk Is Cheap When It Comes to Sustainability or Organic Farming

Daily Yonder

One way to reduce agricultural chemicals is planting cover crops in the Fall after the cash crop is harvested. Winter cover crops could mean using less fertilizer and herbicide in the Spring. Grain prices began to fall and crops weren’t worth what farmers put into them.

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