These cover crops will serve a dual purpose. They will help hold the soil down this winter during rain events to prevent erosion. They will also serve as nutrient scavengers and prevent loss of nutrients in our soil. The soil nutrients that are left from the soybean crop will be locked up in the cover crop plants. We will spray and kill the cover crop in the early spring before we plant corn. As the plant material breaks down and rots away it will make the nutrients they took up available for our corn crop next spring. |
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