Cover crop means a small grain crop, such as oats, wheat, or barley, not grown for harvest.
Cover crop means a preparatory crop of one or more species seeded and grown prior to the seeding of the permanent seed mixture, for the chief purpose of protecting the soil from erosion and also for improving the soil fertility and structure. The term is synonymous with stubble crop and is considered a type of mulch.
Cover crop means plants or a green manure crop grown for seasonal soil protection or soil improvement.
Examples of Cover crop in a sentence
Cover crop is a small grain crop, such as oats, wheat, or barley, not grown for harvest.
Cover crop seeding is measured by the acre of ground surface seeded.
Cover crop termination zones 1 and 2, in the largely mountainous regions in the Western U.S. (from Montana south to New Mexico and west to California), were refined by NRCS and other local university experts to identify proper cover crop management due to wide variability in climate and cropping systems in those areas.
Cover crop planting may be done in conjunction with permanent seeding or immediately after permanent seeding has taken place.
Arbuckle JG, Roesch-McNally G (2015) Cover crop adoption in Iowa: The role of perceived practice characteristics.
More Definitions of Cover crop
Cover crop means establishing cover crops that maintain a minimum of 60 percent ground cover. Native or volunteer vegetation that meets the minimum ground cover requirement is acceptable. Compliance shall be determined by the Line Transect Test Method, NRCS National Agronomy Manual, Subpart 503.51, Estimating Crop Residue Cover, amended through February 2011 (and no future editions).
Cover crop means a crop grown over winter as detailed in paragraph 2 of this Schedule.
Cover crop means the establishment of a vegetative cover to protect soils from erosion and to restrict pollutants from entering the waterways. Cover crops can be dense, planted crops of grasses or legumes, or crop residues such as corn, wheat, or soybean stubble which maximize infiltration and prevent runoff from reaching erosive velocities.
Cover crop for the purposes of this Act, shall mean a crop planted on agricultural land and horticultural land primarily to manage soil erosion, soil fertility, soil quality, water quality, water holding capacity, weeds, pests, diseases, biodiversity, or wildlife.
Cover crop means a crop, such as cereal grains, that is planted following the harvest of summer crops for the purpose of the seasonal protection of soil, the assimilation of residual nitrogen left from a previous crop, and the continued mineralization of nitrogen.
Cover crop. [and "green manure"] means the plants listed in the cover crop [and green manure] database maintained by the University of Hawaii at Manoa college of tropical agriculture and human resources, except bermuda grass and other invasive or
Cover crop means the plants listed in the cover crop database maintained by the university of Hawaii college of tropical agriculture and human resources. "Cover crop" does not include any invasive or fast-growing grasses, or both, including Bermuda grass.