Spring-planted oats can provide many possibilities for ... gap until summer pasture is available or even provide cover for a summer crop. While oats can be grazed, the crop can’t handle ...

On a cool, cloudy spring day, Landon Plagge could see hints of what was ... Through the program he gets both technical assistance and some money to plant oats and cover crops. “I’d like to plant more ...

With cool-season vegetable crops going into the ground, many gardeners who ventured into cover ... oats — as these crops develop deep root systems over the winter, allowing them to use spring ...

Oats die after ... When spring sprung, the clover, pea and vetch bloomed pink, red and purple. The bees loved the flowers too. Yet when it was time to pull the cover crop and plant vegetables ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. – No one wants to think of harvest’s end as the vegetable garden reaches peak, but now’s the time to plant over-winter cover crops to improve your soil for next season.

Especially in organic systems this might be a better option because you don’t have to worry about that spring ... cover crop options suggested by the University of Minnesota include winter rye ...

This spring, you may have passed farm fields that ... What’s growing are cover crops. Cover crops are not actually a crop that can be harvested and sold. The "covers" are grown by responsible ...

A cover crop – sometimes called a catch crop – is sown between two main tillage enterprises. Planting takes place normally ...