Take Home Thoughts Cover crops are valuable tool to add diversity and residues. Managing for Soil Health requires management.
{"Image DocumentName": "Take Home ThoughtsCover crops are valuable tool to add diversity and residues. Managing for Soil Health requires management.", "Image ImageDescription": "Local NRCS Office has tools available to help with cover crop planning. Cover crop calculator. Cover species guide. Take home thoughts. Cover crops are not the only practice out there to add diversity and residues. Adding a cash crop into the rotation can help with both of these. If you are conventional tillage and a very simple rotation, find some primers and diversity to add to the system and improve the likelihood of success in your cash crops. This environment is extremely fragile and dynamic, overgrazing or tillage at the wrong time can be very detrimental to the next crop. Longer rotations help with this but don\u2019t alleviate it. There are instances where crop residue was in the field providing protection from wind erosion, a cover crop was planted that never germinated and the reside was gone. As with all things management is required. Doesn\u2019t matter if it is soil health or cover crops, have to manage the system.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}