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- noun Attributive form of
cover crop
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Examples
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Fodder from the herbaceous cover-crop species can be periodically harvested for removal and feeding to livestock.
Chapter 6 1996
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Every September, vetch and rye were sown as a cover-crop and soil-builder and disked into the soil the following spring.
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Now the ground is clean, no stumps to grub out, and ready for a cover-crop or clean cultivation.
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I have seen scientists making experiments with it at the Agricultural College at Guelph, so that its value as a cover-crop, or substitute for manure, might be accurately estimated.
Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910
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Clean tillage for the first part of the season and the raising of a cover-crop in the latter part, to be plowed under, is a standard and dependable procedure.
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As a cover-crop for poor land it adds much humus to the soil and makes capital grazing.
Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition Frank Lincoln Stevens 1902
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The machine is designed to mimic a natural rainstorm on three different types of soil conditions bare soil, soil with a cover-crop and soil covered with woodchip mulch.
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The machine is designed to mimic a natural rainstorm on three different types of soil conditions bare soil, soil with a cover-crop and soil covered with woodchip mulch.
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The garden beds will start their three-year transition period with a cover-crop of field peas, a legume crop, to build soil and naturally fix nitrogen with the help of beneficial soil bacteria.
TreeHugger 2009
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Rebecca Gerendasy: South Dakota Farmer Uses No-Till and Cover Crops Practices to Improve Yields 2009
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