Uploaded September 2016 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Ron Morse (Virginia Tech, emeritus) shares how to successfully fit cover crops into a vegetable rotation, including establishment methods, matching the right species to the right methods, recommended rotations and cash crop establishment.
This session was part of Cover Crops for Soil Health, a three-day professional development workshop hosted by Northeast SARE and Delaware State University in March 2016. More information about the event, including all session recordings and slide presentations, is at sare.org/cover-crops-training.
Find more practical information about cover crops at sare.org/cover-crops.
About the Speaker
Ron Morse is emeritus professor at Virginia Tech whose major focus is cover crop-based conservation agriculture for small-scale vegetable farms. Areas of specialization include establishment and management of high-biomass cover crops to suppress weeds and supply nutrients for succeeding vegetable crops; integration of farmscapes (biostrips) and plant-diverse controlled-traffic beds to alleviate soil compaction, manage insect pests and improve soil and overall farm health; and development and refinement of small-farm equipment.
Ron Morse (Virginia Tech, emeritus) shares how to successfully fit cover crops into a vegetable rotation, including establishment methods, matching the right species to the right methods, recommended rotations and cash crop establishment.
This session was part of Cover Crops for Soil Health, a three-day professional development workshop hosted by Northeast SARE and Delaware State University in March 2016. More information about the event, including all session recordings and slide presentations, is at sare.org/cover-crops-training.
Find more practical information about cover crops at sare.org/cover-crops.
About the Speaker
Ron Morse is emeritus professor at Virginia Tech whose major focus is cover crop-based conservation agriculture for small-scale vegetable farms. Areas of specialization include establishment and management of high-biomass cover crops to suppress weeds and supply nutrients for succeeding vegetable crops; integration of farmscapes (biostrips) and plant-diverse controlled-traffic beds to alleviate soil compaction, manage insect pests and improve soil and overall farm health; and development and refinement of small-farm equipment.
