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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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.
