Like fashion from your favorite decade, cover crops have come full circle and are once again en vogue.
Just two short generations ago, cover crops were standard procedure on family farms. Life was different then, though, as small family farms had a variety of animals and planted a diverse selection of crops to support themselves and their livestock.
There was no synthetic fertilizer. Farmers had to come up with their own by growing legumes or…
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Georgetown, Del., no-tiller Jay Baxter was planning on conducting a cover crop experiment with oats, but when Mother Nature got in the way, he quickly pivoted to another idea for a different type of cover crop experiment.
