Cover Crop

Cover crops are plants used to slow erosion, improve soil health, enhance water availability, smother weeds, help control pests and diseases, increase biodiversity and bring a host of other benefits to farms.

Cover crops are being seeded all around Franklin County! Farmers plant cover crops with minimum tillage seed incorporation techniques as a way to manage water, nurtients, soil health, erosion, pests, weeds, and much more on their fields.

The Highboy plants cover crops across 60 feet in between corn rows by broadcasting the seed under the canopy.

More Resources

Cover Crops and Green Manures - UVM Extension

Cover Crops and Reduced Tillage - UVM Extension

Getting Outside the Cover Crop Box - UVM Extension

Farm Agronomic Practices Program - Agency of Agriculture and Food Markets