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Use covers to build soil, reduce fertilizer and
smother weeds.
 Managing Cover
Crops Profitably -- New 212-page book from the USDA's SARE program helps
farmers zero in on the right cover crops and manage them for maximum benefits.
Online Cover Crop Video -- Watch innovator Steve
Groff kill his cover crop with a stalk chopper and no-till transplant tomotoes
(.avi or .mov files).
Cover Crop and Forage Seed Sources -- Find
the varieties you need to fit your farming system.
Features:
No-Till Transplanting Into Cover Crops
Pa. vegetable grower Steve Groff shares tips about his 'New Generation'
cropping systems.
Hot Links:
 PlantLink
finds more info about your favorite covers.
If you're just
starting to look for the right cover crop, this search engine is
probably not for you. But once you've narrowed your choice (use the
links below), this is a great place to find more information.
For
example, type in hairy vetch and you'll quickly find links to pages about
everything from no-till transplanting tomatoes into vetch in California to the
effects of vetch kill date on N production in Maryland -- dozens of useful pages
from Extension, USDA, nonprofits, and farmers.
Of course you'll also
turn up a good deal of irrelevant info to. Study the domain names, titles and
keywords returned carefully to focus in on what you're looking for, and use your
"right-click, open in a new window" option to keep several sites
loading while you scan the list. |
 Farmscaping to Enhance
Biological Control -- This excellent online resource from ATTRA tells
how to turn your farm into a home for beneficial insects to help check pest
problems. Please register at the site's
publication page before viewing.
Cover and
Green Manure Crop Benefits to Soil Quality -- Good summary from the
USDA-NRCS Soil
Quality Institute. Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to view. (Adobe Acrobat download
site.)
Managing Cover Crops
Profitably -- On-line version of the first editon of the Sustainable
Agriculture Network's print handbook. Good general resource with guide to
proven covers by region and summaries of more than 30 cover crops and mixes. An
even better resource is the all-new 2nd print edition of
Managing Cover
Crops Profitably
University of California SAREP
Cover Crop Resource Page -- Extensive site that includes a database of
more than 5,000 items, 400 on-line images (unavailable on 3/4/97 visit) and
detailed information on 32 cover crop species. Relevance not limited to
California growers.
Cover
Crops Home Page -- Oregon State University Forage Information System --
Topics page
provides links to species profiles and other useful information.
How
to Grow Fresh-Market Tomatoes The Sustainable Way With Organic Mulches
-- Brief summary of a publication by USDA's Dr. Aref Abdul-Baki. Describes
no-till transplant system similar to that used
by Steve Groff.
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