Using cover crops in your rotation can help you meet a variety of goals: Improve Soil Health Provide cover to unseeded ground Increase water usage Manage a salt issue Provide grazing/forage opportunities Break up soil compaction Fix/scavenge nitrogen Cover Crop 101 Video Incorporate the Use of Cover Crops into Management Plants for Prevent-Plant […]
A visual for water movement and pore size: The different straw sizes represent a soil with large pores (coarse textured; A), small pores (fine textured; B) and mixed pore sizes (aggregated; C). Think about how water flows through these straws (or soil pores) and also about how water would rise in each size straw type […]
The general thought is that salinity is the problem, when really, water management is the problem. Salinity is a symptom of water management issues. This is why we say that if you can control the water, you can control the salts. Read this circular by Dr. Dave Franzen to gain a better understanding of how […]