Uploaded March 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This presentation will discuss how farmers from across the United States manage cover crops on their farms to achieve their soil loss prevention and water infiltration goals, as well as address misconceptions on nitrate losses to surface and ground water. Highlights include:
• Why improving nitrogen fertilizer management is a good first step, but why it won’t stop nitrate leaching losses
• Utilizing grass cover crops to improve soil structure, increase water infiltration, and reduce water and phosphorus runoff
• Phosphorus soil dynamics
• How cover crops can decrease soil losses from erosion by up to 100% and increase infiltration sixfold in some systems
• How to manage cover crops to produce the same results on your own
This presentation is part of the 2017 National Conference on Cover Crops and Soil Health. Slide presentations and additional conference information is available at sare.org/covercropconference2017.
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) provides grants and outreach to advance innovations that improve profitability, stewardship and quality of life. SARE is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, USDA.
This presentation will discuss how farmers from across the United States manage cover crops on their farms to achieve their soil loss prevention and water infiltration goals, as well as address misconceptions on nitrate losses to surface and ground water. Highlights include:
• Why improving nitrogen fertilizer management is a good first step, but why it won’t stop nitrate leaching losses
• Utilizing grass cover crops to improve soil structure, increase water infiltration, and reduce water and phosphorus runoff
• Phosphorus soil dynamics
• How cover crops can decrease soil losses from erosion by up to 100% and increase infiltration sixfold in some systems
• How to manage cover crops to produce the same results on your own
This presentation is part of the 2017 National Conference on Cover Crops and Soil Health. Slide presentations and additional conference information is available at sare.org/covercropconference2017.
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) provides grants and outreach to advance innovations that improve profitability, stewardship and quality of life. SARE is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, USDA.
