Best practices for cover cropping with Keith Berns, Co-Founder of Green Cover Seeds | Regen Rev 2022

Keith Berns combines over 20 years of no-till farming with 10 years of teaching Agriculture and Computers. In addition to no-tilling 2,500 acres of irrigated and dryland corn, soybeans, rye, triticale, peas, sunflowers, and buckwheat in South Central Nebraska, he also co-owns and operates Green Cover Seed, one of the major cover crop seed providers and educators in the United States. Through Green Cover Seed, Keith has experimented with over 100 different cover crop types and hundreds of mixes planted into various situations and has learned a great deal about cover crop growth, nitrogen fixation, moisture usage, and grazing utilization of cover crops.
Keith also developed the SmartMix Calculator, one of the most widely used cover crop selection tools on the internet. Keith has a Masters Degree in Agricultural Education from the University of Nebraska and teaches on cover crops and soil health more than 20 times per year to various groups and audiences.
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[@camilovallejos9462]

Please make the calculator available for México. Or make it so that it works just by entering climate and coordinates data (without postal code)

[@dertythegrower]

Thank you for this one.

[@startsomewhere5467]

I live in Massachusetts I grow for myself not commercially. What can I use to break up somewhat compacted soil for greens kale, spinach, ect

[@camilovallejos9462]

Break it with iron, then conserve porosity by using wide roots like radish, tap roots like sunflower and fibrous roots like oaths. whatever grows well in your area and has low seed cost will work

[@bakerbk3696]

@@camilovallejos9462 love the realistic and straight forward advice 👍🏻

[@inigomontoya8943]

Maybe an unpopular opinion but on a small scale dandelions are pretty phenomenal and the seed heads are everywhere.

[@AdvancingEcoAgriculture]

Hi Dickey McGeezaks, thanks for this excellent question. You may want to take a look at our Standard Greens Program (www.advancingecoag.com/regenerative-agriculture-greens) which will give you an idea of the types of nutrients that are useful for such plants throughout their growth cycle. Good luck!
- The AEA Team

[@iwenive3390]

Sorghum. That stuff is absurd

[@iwenive3390]

What would you recommend for cover crops in extremely hard soil that has caliche and low rain with high dry temperatures?