Why Grow a Cover Crop?
Improve your soil health with the use of cover crops
Cover Crops do not produce a marketable product, they benefit the soil for the succeeding crops and are a good return on investment. They are beneficial to the soil by:
- improving soil health by adding organic matter to the soil
- increasing biological activity
- improving soil structure
- reducing soil erosion and run off
- supressing weeds and reducing leaching
- increasing the supply of nutrients available to the next crop (particularly by adding nitrogen by fixation)
- nematode control
- counting towards EFA points
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