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Cover Crops

Discover the benefits: increased soil organic matter, enhanced nutrient cycling, and improved soil structure, leads to improved crop yields and profitability.

Product Descriptions

Cool Season Grasses

Hybrid Bulbosa:

  • Perennial Ground Cover
  • Designed to provide ground cover early in the growing season
  • Dormant when cash crops are consuming water and nutrients.
  • Underground dormant bulbs allow for virtually bare soil surface when sweeping tree nut crops.
  • Orchard, under vine, and under-story as a permanent cover crop.
  • Improves soil percolation and biological activity.
  • Extremely low nitrogen consumption – no yield drag.
    • Varieties available:
      • RADIX 55
      • RADIX 307
      • RADIX 350

Warm Season Grasses

Teff:

  • Warm Season Summer Annual
  • High Biomass Production
  • Easily Killed with Tillage or First Frost
  • Soil Compaction Reduction
  • Radically Increased Water Percolation over Bare Soil
  • Fantastic Weed Suppression
  • Rapid Establishment and Growth in the Summer Months
  • Highly Active Nitrogen Scavenging

Piper Sudangrass:

  • Massive biomass producer
  • Lower levels of HCN than commercial types
  • Increased resistance to leaf blight/anthracnose
  • Finer stemmed than Sorghum Sudangrass Hybrids

Brassicas

Action White Mustard:

  • Class II Nematode Resistance
  • Weed Suppressor
  • Erosion Fighter
  • Topsoil Aerifier
  • Rapid Establishment
  • Beet Cyst Nematode Reducer

Atlantis Fodder Radish:

  • Excellent Nitrogen Scavenger
  • Weed Suppressor
  • Deep Subsoiler
  • Easy Winterkill
  • Reduce Beet Cyst/Root Gall/TRV Vector Nematodes (among others-Grade 2 resistance)

Brown Mustard:

  • Extremely effective Pythium, Rhizoctonia, and Verticillium Wilt Reducer
  • Topsoil Aerifier
  • Weed Suppression
  • Rapid Establishment

Director White Mustard:

  • Class II Nematode Resistance
  • Weed Suppressor
  • Erosion fighter
  • Topsoil aerifier
  • Rapid Establishment
  • Beet cyst Nematode Reducer
  • Low Inclination to Flower

White Mustard:

  • Weed Suppressor
  • Erosion Fighter
  • Topsoil Aerifier
  • Rapid Establishment

Legumes

Austrian Winter Peas:

  • Winter Hardy to Zone 6
  • Less seed depth sensitive than other peas – easier in mixes!
  • Easy termination
  • Prolific Biomass Producer
  • Exceptional N fixer
  • Biomass breaks down quickly
  • Rapid Establishment

White Mustard:

  • Weed Suppressor
  • Erosion Fighter
  • Topsoil Aerifier
  • Rapid Establishment

Crimson Clover:

  • Excellent Producer of Nitrogen
  • Weed Suppressor
  • Erosion Fighter

Hairy Vetch:

  • Excellent Soil Builder
  • Exceptional N Fixer
  • Adapted to wide range of soil conditions – pH/low fertility etc.
  • Extended Vegetation Duration
  • Winter Hardy
  • Topsoil Aerifier
  • Extended duration active pollinator forage

Common Vetch:

  • Excellent Soil Builder
  • Exceptional N Fixer
  • Produces Significant Biomass
  • Topsoil Aerifier