Rory Lewandowski, OSU Extension Educator in Wayne County, discusses three species of cover crops that provide the opportunity to increase forage production, particularly on prevented plant acres. Cover crops also offer nutrient and soil retention benefits compared with leaving the soil bare.
View Rory’s recorded presentation on this subject at go.osu.edu/AgCrisis. Check out the Cover Crop Selector Tool at mccc.msu.edu/selector-tool.
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Podcast hosts Elizabeth Hawkins and Amanda Douridas touch on various aspects of prevented plant fields from forage options for livestock to agronomic considerations for fields left bare.
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