No-tillers are finding that weed suppression can be an added benefit of using cover crops by tweaking a few management strategies in their fields.
“The right cover crop, managed in the right way, can control well over 90% of winter annuals and even some spring perennials,” says Dave Robison, forage and cover crop manager for Legacy Seeds Inc. of Winona Lake, Ind.
Cover crops suppress weeds in a number of ways: Through competition; by allelopathy…
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