Strip Till Can Provide Another Option For Planting After Cover Crops
By Forrest Laws, Delta Farm Press
Growers who terminate their cover crops two to three weeks before planting may have the best of both worlds — plenty of biomass from the dying vegetation to help their soil but not enough to interfere with seeding the commercial crop.
But there’s another alternative cotton producers may want to consider as they plant their cover crops this fall, according to Tyson Raper, Extension cotton and small grains specialist with the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture.