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.
Using large-root varieties, like beets, will break up the soil throughout the growing process which reduces the need for plowing or tilling. Plowing and tilling increase erosion and topsoil loss, so farmers work to prevent it as much as possible.
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