Cover Crops

2020 Virtual Annual Cover Crop Tour
"Discover the Cover"
Soil Health Specialist, Dawn Madison, interviews farmers about their cover
crop experience in SW Minnesota.

Click on the landowner name below to view the interviews:

Tom Fick

Brad Petersen

Brent Fluit

Terry Aukes

Best-management practices.

Cover crops are being re-discovered to help farmers
with profitability, soil health and crop protection against weather extremes.

Minnesota Soil Health Coalition

South Dakota Soil Health Coalition

United States Department of Ag
"Soil Health with Cover Crops in MN"

University of Minnesota-Extension
"Planting Dates and Seeding Rates"

Sustainable Agriculture
Research and Education
"Managing Cover Crops Profitably"

Minnesota
Sustainable Farming Association
"Cover Crop Fact Sheet"

Minnesota Board of
Water and Soil Resources
“Planting temporary cover crops”

Midwest Cover Crop Council

Practical Farmers of Iowa

Rock County Conservation
(YouTube)

"Everything Cover Crops"
(Facebook)

Rock County Conservation
(Facebook)

La Crosse Seed

Millborn Seed

List of local Aerial Seeders

Grants/Cost-share for Cover Crops