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Committing to Cover Crops Brings Added Benefits to No-Till

By Laura Barrera posted on July 30, 2016

After seeing the changes cover crops made to one farm, the Eberhard family is going all in to take out weeds and secure and produce nutrients.

Pictured Above: EXTRA ‘N.’ Austrian winter peas provide supplemental nitrogen (N) to the Eberhards’ following corn crop. Eric Eberhard says one year they grew 170-bushel corn on 80 N units, while a nearby field only yielded 4 bushels better on 150 N units

Fifteen years ago, Lynn Eberhard began farming a field that was in bad shape. The ground was hard and the yields were poor. So he decided to seed cover crops, which he…

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KEYWORDS crop operations fertility programs lynn eberhard Soil and Water Conservation District weed suppression
Laura barrera

Laura Barrera

Laura Barrera is the former managing editor of No-Till Farmer and Conservation Tillage Guide magazines. Prior to joining No-Till Farmer, she served as an assistant editor for a greenhouse publication. Barrera holds a B.A. in magazine journalism from Ball State University.

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