Fact Sheets
Cover Crop Recipes
These publications are intended to provide a starting point for farmers who are new to growing cover crops. With experience, farmers may fine-tune the use of cover crops for their systems.



Post Corn Silage, Going to Soybean: Introduce a Fall Rye Cover Crop
The following recipe provides an introductory approach to integrating a cover crop after corn silage harvest and before planting soybean as the next crop.


Wheat Going to Corn: Underseed Red Clover
The following recipe provides an introductory approach to underseeding a red clover cover crop into winter wheat prior to corn.



After Wheat, Going to Corn or Soybean: Use an Oat-Radish Mix
This recipe provides an introductory approach to integrating a cover crop mix of oats and radish after wheat harvest going to corn or soybean the next year.