Crop Rotation & Cover Crops Resources

UT Organic Crop Production Workshop Series

April 13, 2009
ATTRA
http://www.attra.org/
Organic Crop Production Overview
Overview of Cover Crops and Green Manures
Rye as a Cover Crop
No-Till Vegetable Production: Non-Chemical Methods of Cover Crop
Suppression and Weed Control
Field Bindweed Control Alternatives
Resource Guide to Organic and Sustainable Vegetable Production
Conservation Tillage
Center for Environmental Farming Systems
http://www.cefs.ncsu.edu/resourcesorganicproduction.htm
Cover Crops for Organic Farms
Crop Rotations on Organic Farms
Eliot Colemans The New Organic Growerhttp://www.fourseasonfarm.com/main/books/books.html
Chapter 7: Crop Rotation
Chapter 8: Green Manures
Kansas Rural Center Sustainable Agriculture Management Guides- Crop Rotation
http://www.kansasruralcenter.org/publications/rotation.pdf
Natural Resources Conservation Service- Cover and Green Manure Crop Benefits to Soil Quality
http://soils.usda.gov/sqi/management/files/sq_atn_1.pdf
NCSU Summer Cover Crops
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/hil/hil-37.html

Rodale Institute- How to zap pests, build soil with cover crops in strategic crop rotations
http://newfarm.rodaleinstitute.org/features/1002/crop_rotations/index.shtml
SARE Managing Cover Crops Profitably
http://www.sare.org/publications/covercrops.htm
UC SAREP Cover Crop Resource Page
http://www.sarep.ucdavis.edu/ccrop/
USDA National Organic Program
http://www.ams.usda.gov/nop/
UT Forage Research
http://forages.tennessee.edu/
Virginia Association for Biological Farming
http://www.vabf.org/publications.php
Cover Cropping: On-farm, Solar-powered Soil Building, No. 1-06
Caring for the Soil as a Living System, No. 2-06
Cover Crops for All Seasons, No. 3-06
Using Manually-Operated Seeders for Precision Cover Crop Plantings on the Small
Farm, No. 4-06