Practical applications of cover crops

Reasons to Cover Crop

What are your goals?

Cover crops for soil improvement

Economics

Using cover crops

Systems and Tillage

Mulch systems – managing cover

Winter Annual Legumes

Success with cover crops - innoculants

Multi-season/perennial legumes

Cereals

Other winter annual grasses

Perennial grasses – Cool season

Summer annual grasses

Warm season perennial grasses

Annual legumes

Other annual Broadleaves

Legume-grass mixtures often perform better than either alone

Rye and Hairy vetch are the king and queen of cover crops in the region

Mid-Atlantic hairy vetch systems

Hairy vetch system details

Rye as a cover crop

Successful Mid-Atlantic Cover Crops

Field crop rotations

Systems incorporating grazing

PSU Living mulch system

Crimson Clover

Field peas

Woollypod vetch

Bigflower Vetch

Crownvetch

Subterranean
 Clover

Red Clover

White clover

Arrowleaf clover

Berseem Clover

Rose Clover

Other Clovers

Annual Sweetclover

Yellow Sweetclover

Black medic

Burr Medic

"Hairy Vetch 80-250 lbs..."

Ryegrass