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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               Brent Fluit               ​Terry Aukes               Brad Petersen

    Sign up for Rock County cover crop information:

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Best-management practices.
Protecting our resources.
Protect resources.
Field days and education
Contact us for upcoming soil health events.
Cover crops are being re-discovered to help farmers
​with profitability, soil health and crop protection against weather extremes.

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Planting/Terminating Cover Crops

Minnesota Soil Health Coalition

South Dakota Soil Health Coalition

Soil Health Partnership

​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” 
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Midwest Cover Crop Council
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Practical Farmers of Iowa


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Social Media Resources


​​Rock County Conservation
(YouTube)

"Everything Cover Crops"
(Facebook)

Rock County Conservation
(Facebook)




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Local Cover Crop Vendors/Services

La Crosse Seed  

​Millborn Seed 

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List of local Aerial Seeders​


Grants/Cost-share for Cover Crops​
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