Cover crops can help improve soil quality, fix nitrogen for the following crop, supply rescue forage and can lead to improved ground and surface water quality.
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Cover crop tools: Equipment for conservation farming
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InterSeeder is a multipurpose machine that simultaneously plants three rows of cover crops while spraying post-emergent herbicide and nitrogen fertilizer in single passes between four or six rows of knee-high corn.
The Rowbot was initially designed for nitrogen applications between 30-inch corn rows, and is being adapted to plant cover crops.
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