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Cover crop choice. What criteria do you use to make it?
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Gerald J.
Posted 7/7/2011 11:50 (#1852515 - in reply to #1852294)
Subject: Re: Cover crop choice. What criteria do you use to make it?



There have been a couple good books on cover crops, one from California and one from New England, maybe Maine that list the characteristics and some results of many possibilities though I don't recall there being anything about tillage radishes.

Besides all the traits and effects, the use of cover crops is affected severely by the availability of seed. There's a clover that grows its seed underground so its almost impossible to harvest the seed commercially, but it grows and stays short which is a useful cover crop capability while generating a lot more N than some grasses.

Gerald J.
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