National Conference on Cover Crops and Soil Health

Cover Crops: Not Just Foul Weather Friends

February 21, 2014
Brian DeVore
agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Loon Commons blog, Water
cover crops, erosion, Gabe Brown, Howard G. Buffett, Land Stewardship Project, mob grazing, National Conference on Cover Crops and Soil Health, Ray Archuleta, Rob Myers, row crops, runoff, SARE, Soil and Water Conservation Society, soil health

Cover crops proved themselves foul weather friends during the Great Drought of 2012. A groundbreaking farmer survey conducted in the Upper Mississippi River watershed showed that during that year’s brutal growing season…