Cover Crop

Fodder from the herbaceous cover-crop species can be periodically harvested for removal and feeding to livestock. ❋ Unknown (1996)

Now the ground is clean, no stumps to grub out, and ready for a cover-crop or clean cultivation. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Every September, vetch and rye were sown as a cover-crop and soil-builder and disked into the soil the following spring. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

I have seen scientists making experiments with it at the Agricultural College at Guelph, so that its value as a cover-crop, or substitute for manure, might be accurately estimated. ❋ Emily Ferguson (1910)

Clean tillage for the first part of the season and the raising of a cover-crop in the latter part, to be plowed under, is a standard and dependable procedure. ❋ Unknown (1906)

As a cover-crop for poor land it adds much humus to the soil and makes capital grazing. ❋ Frank Lincoln Stevens (1902)

The machine is designed to mimic a natural rainstorm on three different types of soil conditions bare soil, soil with a cover-crop and soil covered with woodchip mulch. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The garden beds will start their three-year transition period with a cover-crop of field peas, a legume crop, to build soil and naturally fix nitrogen with the help of beneficial soil bacteria. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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