ICYMI: Legume-based cover crop opportunities
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Happy June! We're in the midst of planning the coming year for Top Crop Manager over here and we want your input. Do you have any topics or ideas that you would like to see featured in our magazine? Send me an email or give me a call!
- Jill Filmer, east editor
 
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ICYMI: Legume-based cover crop opportunities

Producers know cover crops can provide an array of benefits, such as improved soil health and decreased disease, insect and weed problems. But in the short term, the costs of buying the seed and planting the cover crop can be a barrier to adoption of this practice. This southern Ontario project is assessing options to make cover cropping more economically attractive in the short term. » Read now...
 
 
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