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 Coleman’s The New Organic Grower- http://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 .