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Cover Crops

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Cover Crop Chart
USDA-ARS
https://www.ars.usda.gov/plains-area/mandan-nd/ngprl/docs/cover-crop-chart/
The Cover Crop Chart (v. 3.0) is designed to assist producers with decisions on the use of cover crops in crop and forage production systems.
Virginia NRCS Cover Crop Planning Manual 1.0
USDA-NRCS
https://efotg.sc.egov.usda.gov/references/public/va/VA_TN10_Agronomy.pdf
The overall purpose of this Technical Note is to help NRCS planners, clients, and partners implement the Virginia NRCS 340 Cover Crop Practice Standard.
Virginia Cover Crops Fact Sheet Series No. 1: Beneficial Uses of Cover Crops
Cathy Fleming and Wade Thomason
http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/CSES/CSES-120/CSES-120.html
This VCE publication provides a short description of these main benefits of cover crops
Managing Cover Crops Profitably, 3rd Ed.
SARE
http://www.sare.org/Learning-Center/Books/Managing-Cover-Crops-Profitably-3rd-Edition
Managing Cover Crops Profitably explores how and why cover crops work, and provides all the information needed to build cover crops into any farming operation.
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