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COVER CROPS

Grown between harvest in the fall and spring planting, cover crops have numerous benefits:

  • they can help slow the flow of surface water off the fields
  • take up extra nitrogen
  • improve soil health with their root systems and biomass.

 

 

 

 

Several resources are available for cover crop management:

Improving Cash Crop Stand Establishment in Cover Crops - Iowa Soybean Association publication (PDF file)

Midwest Cover Crop Council website

Practical Farmers of Iowa  website

 


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