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Principle authors: Janet Wallace, Kevin Elmy, Dr. Aaron De Laporte and Rosalie Gillis-Madden
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.
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.
Keith
BC
5 Star
It was really well done and very informative. The information provided was valuable and well presented.
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.
Tyler
Atlantic Canada
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