Publisher's Synopsis
<p><strong>In <em>Crop Rotation and Cover Cropping</em>, you can learn some of the thinking behind—and the actual nuts and bolts of—laying out a rotation for your farm. </strong></p> <p>This volume, part of the NOFA guides, covers:</p> <ul> <li>Historical roots of cover-crop techniques</li> <li>Thinking beyond this season's cash crop (disease and pest reduction, weed suppression, cash vs. cover crops)</li> <li>What is a good rotation? (mapping the farm, grouping crops, sample groupings)</li> <li>The economics of rotations and cover cropping (organizing your work, reducing labor inputs, land and cover-crop seed costs)</li> </ul> <p>Including on-farm examples and detailed appendices.</p>
