Tag: cover crop

Tis the Season for Sunn Hemp

Posted: August 27, 2020

“What are all those pretty yellow flowers growing in the farm fields”? That would be Sunn Hemp – a leguminous cover crop that adds organic matter and nutrients to the soil during the fallow times… Read More

Category: Agriculture, Crops, Farm Management

Tags: cover crop, legume, nutrients, organic, soil, sunn hemp

Sunn Hemp (Not Industrial Hemp)

a picture of a planted row of young sunn hemp

by Wendy Mussoline

Posted: July 31, 2018

Cover crops are used in commercial agriculture to promote soil health by adding organic matter to the soil. They are often termed green manure since they enhance soil microbial communities, add herbage to the soil,… Read More

Category: Agriculture, Crops, Events, Pests & Disease

Tags: cover crop, hemp, soil

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