Cover Cropping

Discover how to make cover crops work for you.

Adding cover crops to your rotation can build soil health and on-farm resilience.
Improve the water holding capacity of your soil by including cover crops in your rotation
Increase farm profitability by using legumes to fix nitrogen, reducing the cost of inputs
Improve soil health, suppress weeds, break disease cycles, deter pests, build soil organic matter

Create a cover crop plan

As you progress through the online courses, you will create a uniquely customized plan that tells you what, when and how to plant and terminate cover crops suited specifically to your operation.

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Helping farmers from all over Canada level up their skills

Here are just a few comments from course participants.

Great Course

I found the information valuable and will try to use the techniques and guides available in planning for the future. There ais a great mix of media, pdf and resources.

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Keith

BC

5 Star

It was really well done and very informative. The information provided was valuable and well presented.

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Kevin

ON

Great resource

I found it to be a practical resource. Very easy to navigate and use. Like being able to go back and review or re-watch episodes.

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Tyler

Atlantic Canada

Other options to learn more about Cover Cropping and other BMPs
1. Self Study
Access courses in nitrogen management and advanced grazing
2. Events
Register for on-farm events, tours and virtual workshops
3. Resources
Watch videos, discover research from your region.

Curriculum developed in partnership with 

and copyrighted by Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Principle authors: Janet Wallace, Kevin Elmy, Dr. Aaron De Laporte and Rosalie Gillis-Madden

Cover Cropping Full Course
Intro to Selecting Cover Crops
Cultures de couverture
Guide de production - Cultures de couverture
Cover Cropping Windows of Opportunity
Economics of Cover Cropping
Types of Cover Crops