Interseeded cover crops help reduce yield reduction
Wed, 01/24/2018 - 3:26pm
Many agronomists and farmers agree that planting cover crops to keep farm fields covered with vegetation during the fall, winter, and spring can prevent soil erosion and keep soil and fertilizers from washing into area rivers and lakes. A concern, however, for farmers can be that a cover crop might compete with a corn crop and reduce the yield.
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