Protect the Soil — Capture Nutrients
Improve Soil Tilth — Reduce Soil Pests
Increase Nitrogen Fixation
Improve Future Crop Production
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N-Vest® Cover Crops...university researched and proven.
Find the N-Vest® mix best suited for your needs:
- N-Vest® NutriBuilder Mix
- N-Vest® Groundbreaker Mix
- N-Vest® Soilbuilder Annual Ryegrass Blend
- N-Vest® Crimson Cover-All Mix
- N-Vest® Forager Mix
- Clovers
- Kura Clover
- Cereal Grains
- Cereal Rye
- Valor Winter Barley
- Oats
- Wheat
- Triticale
- Winterhardy Annual Ryegrasses
- Forage Radish
- Oilseed Radish
- Turnips
- Pasja Hybrid Brassica
- Rape
- Hairy Vetch
- Cow Peas
- Field Peas
- Austrian Winter Peas
- Forage Peas
- Pro-Max™ Sudangrass
- Summer Delite Brand Teffgrass
- Buckwheat
N-Vest® NutriBuilder Mix
A combination of winterhardy Annual Ryegrass, AU Robin Crimson Clover, and GroundHog cover crop Radishes. This mix both produces and scavenges nitrogen.
Photos above show what NutriBuilder looked like in the spring of 2010.
N-Vest® Crimson Cover-All Mix
Consists of AU Robin Crimson Clover and GroundHog cover crop Radishes. This mix both produces and scavenges nitrogen.
AU Robin Crimson Clover produced over 140 pounds of N in the field pictured above.
N-Vest® Groundbreaker Mix
A combination of Austrian Winter Peas and GroundHog cover crop Radishes. This mix both produces and scavenges nitrogen. A good stand of peas can produce up to 120 pounds of N/acre.
The Austrian Winter Peas and GroundHog Radish above were from a field of Groundbreaker Mix in north-central Ohio.
Forager Mix eight weeks after aerial application.
N-Vest® Forager Mix
Combination of Oats, Winter Rye, and Appin Turnips. Forager Mix is an excellent choice for aerial application into standing row crops. The oats and turnips grow the fastest in the spring and the rye is available for grazing over the winter and spring.
Forager Mix provides excellent feed for cattle. Cattle gained 3.5#/day weight gain in Illinois tests. Also, yields in corn crops following Forager Mix have show increased yields.
Forager Mix eight weeks after aerial application.
N-Vest® Soilbuilder Annual Ryegrass Blend
Formulated to provide excellent soil-building characteristics as well as the potential for outstanding forage production. Annual and Italian ryegrasses have dense fibrous roots and have proven to be effective in improving soil structure.
After three years of no-till and continued use of Soilbuilder, producers should see roots around 50" deep. Soilbuilder can produce as much as five tons of high quality forage for dairy production.
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Cover Crop Benefits:
- Reduce soil erosion
- Increase earthworm population
- Improve soil microbiology
- Build soil tilth
- Produce and scavenge nutrients
- Useful for manure management
- Reduce compaction
- Improve weed control of winter annuals
- Nitrogen cycling
- Increase nitrogen fixation
- Enhance availability of phosphorous
- pH buffering
- Improve water holding capacity
- Improve yield potential over time
- Reduce surface runoff
- Improve aeration
GroundHog Radish (pictured left) tubers provide excellent nutrient scavenging and soil building characteristics and can be found in Groundbreaker Mix, NutriBuilder Mix, and Crimson Cover-All Mix.
Dense annual ryegrass roots provide a great environment for earthworms.
