Cover Crop Strategies Podcast

Determining the best time to plant covers is a critical element to their success. It’s important to know how late in the season you can plant covers to plan buying cover crop seed and working around potential fall inclement weather. Steve Groff, a grower from Holtwood, Pa., shares his thoughts on what has affected cover crop planting dates in the past 20 years, including no-till, mixed species covers, higher biological activity, winter hardiness of cultivars and new cover crop cultivars.