Cover Crop Information Sheets – Row Crops – Mountains, Ridge & Valley, Piedmont

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Fall or Winter Planted Cover Crops

Small Grains

• Annual ryegrass
• Oats
• Cereal rye
• Triticale
• Wheat

Legumes

• Balansa clover
• Crimson clover
• White lupin
• Common vetch
• Hairy vetch
• Winter peas

Broadleaf

• Daikon radish
• Other brassicas

Cover Crop Functions & Ranking (click to view)

Spring or Summer Planted Cover Crops 

Grains

• Pearl millet
• Sorghum
• Sorghum-sudangrass

Legumes

• Cowpeas
• Soybeans
• Sunn hemp

Broadleaf

• Buckwheat
• Sunflower

Cover Crop Functions & Ranking (click to view)