Upping Your Cover Crop Game
Why are we planting it? How are we getting it established? How are we killing it?
By Colleen Halpenny
As defined by the Ontario Cover Crop Strategy, a cover crop is a plant that is seeded into agricultural fields, either within or outside of the regular growing season, with the primary purpose of improving or maintaining soil quality.
These are non-commodity crops either inter-seeded into living crops or planted onto bare fields or crop stubble during fallow periods.