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Cover Crop Planting Options For Late Winter/Early Spring

March 5, 2014 | Posted in Seeding Practices

Source: Penn State Extension

Normally we think about cover crops for fall planting, but there are also options to plant cover crops in March/April. If you have winter wheat or barley in the field, you can frost-seed medium red clover as soon as the snow melts and the soil thaws. The practice has proven viable for many of our growers, despite the disadvantage of not having good seed-to-soil contact.

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