Workers plow it once to open up the soil, then plant cover crops with deep, penetrating roots like radishes or mustards or barley. “We’re able to turn them around in three years,” he said.

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Some examples of commonly used cover crops are buckwheat, barley, clover, hemp, millet, mustard mixes, oats, radishes, rapeseed, rye, turnips, wheat and winter peas.

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Cover crops are also useful as what’s known as “green manure”—essentially an in-place composting system that adds nutrients to the soil with very little effort.

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Cover crops offer numerous vital benefits, including reducing erosion, enhancing soil health, improving water quality, and providing valuable feed and forage for livestock.

Certain cover crops can help control pests, such as the mustard plant, which controls harmful nematodes. Below the soil, legumes — plants in the Fabaceae family — fix nitrogen.