Farmers have been seeding cover crops for a few months now, with most to be terminated in the spring before planting corn or soybeans. What if those cover crops could be used as another cash crop?
Practice could add cash crop, but not without risk
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Farmers have been seeding cover crops for a few months now, with most to be terminated in the spring before planting corn or soybeans. What if those cover crops could be used as another cash crop?
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