NOFA Guides Set: Crop Rotation and Cover Cropping: Soil Resiliency and Health on the Organic Farm (Organic Principles and Practices Handbook Series)

Part of the NOFA guides. This volume covers:

• Historical roots of cover-crop techniques
• Thinking beyond this season's cash crop (disease and pest reduction, weed suppression, cash vs. cover crops)
• What is a good rotation? (mapping the farm, grouping crops, sample groupings)
• The economics of rotations and cover cropping (organizing your work, reducing labor inputs, land and cover-crop seed costs)

Including on-farm examples and detailed appendices.