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What will you gain from covering your soil?

All over the nation, farmers like you are finding that cover crops—especially multi-species cover crops—can drive meaningful change on the farm.

And it all starts with the soil.

Cover crops build healthy soil

when you follow the Six Principles of Soil Health

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Principle: Keep the Soil Covered

Cover crops protect the soil

Bare soil is vulnerable to erosion, water loss, and temperature extremes. By keeping it covered with growing plants and the residue they leave behind, you’ll protect the soil against erosion and insulate it from severe heat and cold.

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Principle: Living Roots as Often As Possible

Cover crops help you maintain a living root in the soil

Life recruits life. Keeping living roots in the ground keeps your microbiology fed and flourishing.

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Principle: Maximize Biodiversity

Cover crops enable you to maximize diversity

By adding multiple plant species, you get a diversity of roots, blooms, nutrients and you have a more resilient crop than any single species.

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Principle: Minimize Soil Disturbance

Cover crops can help reduce soil disturbance

When incorporated into a no-till system, cover crops build soil structure and suppress weeds, reducing the need for tillage and chemicals.

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Principle: Integrate Livestock

Cover crops provide forage for livestock integration

Integrating livestock naturally fertilizes the ground and feeds beneficial microbes. Using cover crops as forage gets livestock into row crop fields, mimicking the soil building buffalo herds of the Great Plains.

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Principle: Know Your Context

In order to truly regenerate your soil, you have to know your context

At Green Cover, we’ll help you choose a cover crop solution that matches your context and your goals.

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Decrease your input costs

Decrease your input costs

No matter where the markets go, buying inputs never seems to get cheaper. But you don’t have to be locked into this never-ending cycle of cost increases. Cover crops offer another way forward. By increasing nutrient cycling, cover crops enable your cash crops to get the nutrients they need without being dependent on synthetic fertilizers. Of course this doesn’t happen over night, but we’ve seen farmer after farmer reduce their fertilizer use as their soil health increases. And the difference to your pocketbook is real.

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Grow high quality forage

Grow high quality forage

The opportunities for using cover crops as forage are endless—you could add a forage planting to your crop rotation, add plant diversity to your pasture, or even graze your livestock on green foliage in the winter.

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Improve your soil moisture retention

Improve your soil moisture retention

Every living plant needs water to grow—including cover crops. In the last few years, many people in the US have experienced both extreme lack and extreme excess of water. You can address both of these problems through consistent use of cover crops. When you can hold more water in your soil, you’ll be able to make it longer in a drought, and catch more water in an extreme rainfall event.

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Suppress Weeds

Suppress Weeds

What can be done about herbicide-resistant weeds? The solution won’t come from a brand new chemical herbicide. But with the combination of thoughtful crop rotation and cover crops, you can get ahead of weeds before they even have a chance.

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Protect against erosion

Protect against erosion

Nothing protects your field from runoff and erosion like having living plants in the ground as often as possible. Even if you don’t get a lot of growth from your cover crop before winter, the soil will benefit from its soil armor.

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Reduce pests

Reduce pests

Can we also reduce the need for pesticide use by building healthy soil? With a careful approach to management, the answer is yes. When you build healthy soil with cover crops, your plants will be healthier, and more naturally resistant to pests and diseases. Diversity in your cover crop mix will also break pest cycles and attract beneficial insects who can help keep pests in check.

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Boost Your Profitability

Boost Your Profitability

At the end of the day, farming is a business, and cover crops cost money—is the investment really worth it? Soil health does pay off in the end, but we don’t want to sugar coat it—cover crops aren’t an instant fix for the pocketbook. However, cover crops really do offer opportunities for increased profit. By diversifying your crop rotation and integrating livestock, you can break free from the cycle of rising input costs and falling commodity prices. Regenerative farming with cover crops puts you back in control of your profits.

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Ready to start seeing the benefits of cover crops on your farm?

Get your seed from the cover crop experts

At Green Cover, we know cover crops.

Reach out to us and one of our expert salespeople will craft a custom mix that meets your goals, and fits your budget.

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The crew at GreenCover are the recognized leaders in the field of cover crops for your operation. Whether looking to plant forage or improve your soil, GreenCover has the right seed or combination of seeds to help achieve a more profitable season for you. Give them a call.

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David T.

Excellent variety of seeds, using good inoculants, no fungicide seed treatments, and good prices

Galen P.

Love your blends of seeds, they do a great job.

Tim B.

I tried their seeds in McAllen,TX. I am zone 9b. I had very good success. They increased the growth rate of my pecan trees.

Faith O.

My husband ordered some seed, picked it up today. He was greatly appreciative and impressed by the wonderful customer service provided by each employee he interacted with. Hard to find that these days. Thank you Green Cover!

Ashley S.

This was the most fun I’ve had farming in a while.

John B., an Iowa farmer

The multi-species cover crop mix I planted last summer grew beautifully; the healthiest growth we've ever had on this degraded soil. Also, the educational materials you offer are very helpful. Thank you.

Michele Z.
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We’re farmers too, witnessing the benefits of regenerative farming

Green Cover sprouted in 2008, when brothers Keith and Brian Berns experimented with cover crops on their family farm. They observed and experienced how diverse cover crop mixes leverage the biological processes that God designed into creation and Green Cover was launched to make cover crop seed available to other farmers.

Today, Green Cover is still family owned and operated. We grow, clean, mix, and deliver cover crop seed directly to agricultural producers across the United States and Canada.

Our purpose is to help people regenerate, steward, and share God’s creation for future generations.

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