In this video, Dean Baas, Michigan State University Extension Sustainable Agriculture Educator, discusses why plants go through the same lifecycle, regardless of planting date; examples of summer annual cover crops; which cover crop species grow large amounts of biomass; and more.
Treating Your Cover Crop Like a Cash Crop
No-Till Innovator and Williamsport, Ind., no-tiller Rick Clark knows just how important it is to manage your cover crops as if they were your cash crops. Let’s take a listen to Clark’s advice about the nutrient sequestration powers of cereal rye, and the positive and negative impact it could have on weeds and corn.
