Cover Cropping Techniques

For our environmental project, we were divided into specialty groups. I was placed in Seasonal Rotation and this mainly teaches us what plants are in season and how we can grow it. We had to do an assignment that requires to research best practices in our specialty groups. I decided to to write about the Cover Cropping Techniques that farmers use. Cover Cropping are plants that are planted for soil erosion control, weed control, and improving soil quality. In simple terms, its when there is a plant that you want to plant but we have to add nutrients or something that the soil needs for the incoming plants to grow. Its basically like a the first step of planting.

I was reading this website http://www.mofga.org/tabid/456/Default.aspx to learn more about cover cropping and their philosophy really stood out to me. "WEED THE SOIL, NOT THE CROP" for them, it means that they want to weed out the soil and not ruin the crop. I thought that was really interesting. It also says that their system includes annual alternation between production and fallow crops. Fallow crops means to rest the crops. I found this website really useful because it gave an opinion on how to cover crop.