Technical Bulletin: Benefits of Planting and Grazing Diverse Cover Crops

Kelsey Vergin April 28, 2020

Author: Pasture Project

Description: Integrating cattle grazing on winter cover crops can provide significant soil health and on-farm economic benefits, particularly when cover crop mixes are diverse and combined with adaptive high-stock density grazing practices. This project studied three years of cover crop and livestock integration on 8 cooperating farms in Minnesota and Iowa.

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