When driving through rural North Carolina in the winter, you might notice some fields are unseasonably green, well more often than not, those are cover crops.
Cover crops are a sustainable, environmentally-friendly practice farmers use to improve their soil quality, protect their ground throughout winter, prevent erosion and more. Learn more about cover crops with these farm facts.
Some farmers plant winter wheat and harvest it as a secondary crop which means one field would give a farmer two harvests per year – one of the main crop (sometimes called cash crop) like corn, soybeans or canola as well as winter wheat.
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