Soil HealthWater & Drought
Will a Cover Crop Use Up All My Moisture?
By Dale Strickler Concern about reduced moisture availability probably keeps more people from trying cover crops than any other reason. While it seems counterintuitive, using cover crops can actually increase the moisture availability to the following crop in the rotation. How can this be? There is an assumption that bare ground efficiently stores the moisture it receives. If this were true, every dirt road in the country would have 300 feet of water sitting on top of them...
