Catch crop field
Tillage farmers, uncover the value of catch crops in your rotation 🌱🌱🌱
 
Consider a catch crop to hold and (catch) nutrients in the soil and release them to the following crop rather than getting lost over Winter. Catch Crops, Cover Crops and Green Manures are terms generally used to describe a crop that is sown between two cash crops. Broadly speaking they all help to improve soil structure, increase organic matter content and help with trafficability, but there are some key functional differences between each type of crop
✅ Catch Crops capture excess nutrients leftover from the previous crop preventing nutrient leaching.
✅ Cover Crops cover the ground to reduce soil erosion and weed build-up.
✅ Green Manures provide nutrients for the following crop.
Catch crop beets
Close up of catch crop

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