Selecting cover crop seeding machinery
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Cover crops are crops planted between periods of normal crop production, or between the rows of some crops, with the primary purpose of conservation or soil improvement. Most cover crops are not harvested, but some are harvested as forage or grazed by livestock. A significant amount of labor and machine hours are used to manage cover crops. This guide will focus on equipment used to plant cover crops. As interest in cover cropping and climate-smart agriculture expands and evolves, the labor and machinery needed to plant and terminate cover crops increases. Approximately 15.4 million acres of cover crops were planted in 2017, the last data available from the USDA Census of Agriculture. Cover crop acreage is estimated to have increased substantially since 2017. Many equipment manufacturers are creating or modifying equipment lines to meet producer demand for cover crop equipment.
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