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Tag: cover crops

Monoculture vs. Polyculture Part II

by Andrew McGuire28 June 20153 Comments

“Straight up” beats “cocktails” for cover crop ecosystem services Cover crop mixtures, known as “cocktails” by some, are being promoted as having benefits over cover crops planted as monocultures. As I described in Part I, I reviewed recent research results…

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Science agroecology, cover crops, monoculture, polyculture, sustainable agriculture

Monoculture vs. Polyculture Part I

by Andrew McGuire28 June 2015

“Straight up” beats “cocktails” for cover crop productivity Planting cover crop mixtures is very popular right now. The practice has a feel-good aspect about it and, buoyed by the ecological theory, it fits with the current “mimic nature” strategy of…

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Science agroecology, cover crops, monoculture, polyculture, sustainable agriculture

Ecosystems are not smart, we are.

by Andrew McGuire6 April 20148 Comments

In my recent post Don’t mimic nature on the farm, improve it, I argued that we should cast aside the ideas of “balance of nature” and “nature knows best” in designing farming systems. There is no reason to “follow nature’s lead”…

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Science agroecology, cover crops, Ecology, nature, sustainable agriculture

How about GE cover crops?

by Andrew McGuire11 February 201410 Comments

In a past post, I argued that killing a cover crop with an herbicide was better for building soil than killing it with tillage. Here is another option. Why not develop genetically engineered cover crops that die easily when sprayed…

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Science cover crops, GMOs, soil

Mixing the Perfect Cover Crop Cocktail

by Andrew McGuire7 February 201412 Comments

Last year, at a Washington State University (WSU) Building Soils for Better Crops conference, farmers from Kansas, North Dakota, and Colorado all spoke on the benefits they were seeing from using multi-species cover crops. These cover crop “cocktails” consist of…

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Science cover crops, multi-species

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