Steve Groff says his Winter King hairy vetch variety can be planted with several different cash crops, but he has personally found the most success planting it before corn, tomatoes and hemp. Image: Steve Groff
Steve Groff never planned to develop a new variety of cover crop. In fact, the Holtwood, Pa., no-tiller and cover crop expert believes that he is more often recognized for his contribution of the tillage radish as a cover crop in the early 2000s
“But even before that, I was beginning to see the value of cover crops, and one of the things I was trying to learn about was how to terminate cover crops…
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Last week we had boots on the ground at the Big Soil Health Event in Cedar Falls, Iowa where agronomist David Kleinschmidt emphasized the importance of considering Carbon to Nitrogen ratios of cover crops and residues.
