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[Video] Improving Soil Organic Matter Using Cover Crops

July 1, 2019 | Posted in Soil Health

Farm Manager Scott Latham describes some of the reasons he grows cover crops at Sauvie Island Organics, a 24-acre vegetable farm that serves the Portland, Ore., market. The farm's soils are sandy, so cover crops are used to maintain or improve soil organic matter amidst fairly intensive vegetable production.

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Earlier this week we paid another visit to this year’s Conservation Ag Operator Fellow, Ray McCormick in Vincennes, Ind., and one thing about Ray is that even when it’s the “off season,” he’s still thinking ahead for next season.

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