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Cover Cropping

Also Known As Green manuring (where the cover is ploughed in)
Soil and Water Conservation Practices

Sowing a crop not to harvest it but to keep the soil covered and working between cash crops: clover or vetch to fix nitrogen, rye to hold the surface through winter, radish to break compaction. The practice pairs naturally with no-till and rotation as the third leg of soil-conserving grain farming. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Soil conservation and fertility 1
Origin
Green manuring attested in ancient China and Rome; revived at scale with 20th and 21st century conservation agriculture 1
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Soil Management 1
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Source Cover Crop (Wikipedia)
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