Crop Rotation and Cover Cropping

Soil Resiliency and Health on the Organic Farm

By: Seth Kroeck, Jocelyn Langer (Illustrator)

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Paperback | 15 April 2011

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Part of the NOFA guides. This volume covers:

Historical roots of cover-crop techniques
Thinking beyond this season's cash crop (disease and pest reduction, weed suppression, cash vs. cover crops)
What is a good rotation? (mapping the farm, grouping crops, sample groupings)
The economics of rotations and cover cropping (organizing your work, reducing labor inputs, land and cover-crop seed costs)

Including on-farm examples and detailed appendices.

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Historical Roots	p. 4
Thinking Beyond This Season's Cash Crop	p. 7
Why Make the Effort?	p. 7
Tillage	p. 12
Weed Control	p. 14
Animal Factors	p. 14
Cash and Cover Crops	p. 15
What Is a Good Rotation?	p. 16
Create a Map of Your Farm	p. 17
Grouping Crops	p. 20
Compiling Your Crop Groupings and Adding Them to the Map	p. 29
Sample Groupings/Rotations on a Hypothetical Farm	p. 31
The Economics of Rotations and Cover Cropping	p. 43
Organizing Your Work	p. 43
Reducing Inputs and Labor through Soil Improvement	p. 44
Costs of Establishing a Rotation with Cover Crops	p. 45
Two On-Farm Examples	p. 54
Eileen Droescher, Ol'Turtle Farm, Easthampton, Massachusetts	p. 54
David Colson, New Leaf Farm, Durham, Maine	p. 55
Appendix: Rotations, Cover Crops, and Green Manures (Excerpts from The Real Dirt)	p. 57
Endnotes	p. 73
Bibliography	p. 75
Internet Sources	p. 77
Index	p. 79
About the Author and Illustrator	p. 85
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Crop Rotation and Cover Cropping

Soil Resiliency and Health on the Organic Farm

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