Cover Crops

Early Cover Crop Benefits: What Can You Expect In The First Year?

Written By Laura Barrera and first published on AgFuse.com In 1995, Pennsylvania farmer Steve Groff was speaking at an event when he asked the audience the question:Do cover crops pay off? His thinking at the time was that he had been no-tilling since 1982, and maybe if he no-tilled long enough, he wouldn’t need them. …

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Cover Crops To Increase Soil Microbial Diversity And Mitigate Decline In Perennial Agriculture. A REVIEW

Authored by Eric Vukicevich, Tom Lowery, Pat Bowen, José Ramon Úrbez-Torres & Miranda HartA REVIEW Published in Agronomy for Sustainable Development volume 36, Article number: 48 (2016) Abstract Commercial perennial agriculture is prone to declining productivity due to negative plant-soil feedback. An alternative to costly and environmentally harmful conventional treatment such as soil fumigation could …

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Does Grazing Cover Crops Negatively Impact Soil And Crop Yields?

Separation of crop and livestock production can degrade soil and other natural resources while reducing economic returns. Additionally, the conversion of grassland to cropland has put a strain on forage for cattle. Grazing cover crops can be a potential option to re-integrate crops with livestock production and reverse the adverse effects of separating crops and …

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Hardwood Intercropping Systems

Authors: David Rivest, Ing. F., Ph.D., Université Laval, Olivier, Ph.D., Université Laval and Andrew M. Gordon, B.Sc.F., Ph.D., R.P.F., University of Guelph. Published under licence from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and the Government of Canada. Combining wood and agricultural production while delivering environmental services Introduction The evolution of agriculture in eastern Canada over the past …

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What Do You Read?

If you are like us, then you don’t know where to start when it comes to other reading apart from farming magazines.However, there is so much information out there that can help us understand our businesses, farm better andunderstand the position of non-farmers. We have listed a few more books you might find interesting, challenge …

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