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Soil health is crucial to farming, and Indiana cover crops are a vital component of the equation. Learn how cover crops protect the soil and improve harvest yields throughout the state.
- Cover crops are planted between harvest crop seasons.
- Thanks to the benefits of better soil health, cover crops can improve yield potential for harvest crops.
- Cover crops often include varieties of grasses, legumes and forbs (the term for an herb that is not a grass nor grasslike).
- Indiana is a large adapter of cover crops with 1.59 million acres being planted in 2022.
- Joseph County leads the way with more than half of farm acreage benefitting from cover crops.
- Cover crops help fields capture and hold moisture, preventing runoff.
See more: Award-Winning Hoosier Farmers Cultivate Climate-Conscious Farming in Indiana
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