Summer is wrapping up and I wanted to re-share some UCCE resources for those thinking of planting a winter cover crop this fall.
Focused on field crop rotations and annual cropping systems in the Sacramento Valley:
Newsletter with an article on Equipment to Manage Cover Crops, Winter Cover Crop Performance, and a Project Summary/Results from a 2 year trial in Meridian:
https://cesutter.ucanr.edu/newsletters/Agronomy_Notes86733.pdf
A walk through of our cover crop plots in Colusa County last year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP0IlY503Lo
Winter cover crop performance in a drought year in the Sacramento Valley:
https://ucanr.edu/sites/sutteryuba/files/362688.pdf
Considerations for weed management with winter cover crops:
https://cesutter.ucanr.edu/newsletters/Agronomy_Notes94090.pdf
Finally, the Western Cover Crops Council has a lot of resources related to cover crop management:
https://westerncovercrops.org/resources/