{"id":6042,"date":"2016-02-09T21:06:47","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T02:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=6042"},"modified":"2016-02-10T09:36:33","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T14:36:33","slug":"many-benefits-from-cover-crops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/02\/many-benefits-from-cover-crops\/","title":{"rendered":"Many benefits from cover crops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the celebration of the International Year of Soil, the <em>New York Times<\/em> published an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/07\/business\/cover-crops-a-farming-revolution-with-deep-roots-in-the-past.html?_r=2\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> this week on the value of planting cover crops between regular harvests. \u00a0Among the benefits: increase in soil carbon, decrease in erosion, reduction in compaction, lower fertilizer costs, and improvement in crop yields. \u00a0And as I&#8217;ve pointed out in previous blog posts, it can be part of a livestock production system too. \u00a0While only a small fraction of farmers currently use cover crops, the number is growing so rapidly that cover crop seeds are hard to come by in some areas.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agweb.com\/article\/treating-covers-like-cash-crops-naa-chris-bennett\/?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRohuK3OZKXonjHpfsX%2F6uUpXaeg38431UFwdcjKPmjr1YsGT8p0aPyQAgobGp5I5FEATrPYRadit6IEWA%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a>\u00a0from <em>AgWeb<\/em> discussing the use of cover crops in livestock production.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4389\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4389\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/Drought_Cover_Crop_Oats_and_Vetch_-_Flickr_-_USDAgov.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4389\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4389\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/Drought_Cover_Crop_Oats_and_Vetch_-_Flickr_-_USDAgov-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Source: USDA via Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/Drought_Cover_Crop_Oats_and_Vetch_-_Flickr_-_USDAgov-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/Drought_Cover_Crop_Oats_and_Vetch_-_Flickr_-_USDAgov-207x138.jpg 207w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/Drought_Cover_Crop_Oats_and_Vetch_-_Flickr_-_USDAgov.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4389\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: USDA via Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the celebration of the International Year of Soil, the New York Times published an article this week on the value of planting cover crops between regular harvests. \u00a0Among the benefits: increase in soil carbon, decrease in erosion, reduction in compaction, lower fertilizer costs, and improvement in crop yields. \u00a0And as I&#8217;ve pointed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":4389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops","category-livestock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6042"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6044,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6042\/revisions\/6044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}