Study provides insights to how cover crops and manure work together

Three years of research has yielded valuable data on how cover crops and manure work together.

University of Minnesota Extension specialist Melissa Wilson says she’s wrapping up an extensive study that used different locations, crop rotations, cover crop species, and manure types.

“In the soybean, corn rotation, it didn’t matter if there was a cover crop or if we used just fertilizer or if we used manure with a little bit of starter fertilizer, all the results were the same.

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