
Cover crops play an important role in resilient agricultural systems by improving soil health, reducing erosion, increasing water retention, and helping suppress weeds.

Cover crops play an important role in resilient agricultural systems by improving soil health, reducing erosion, increasing water retention, and helping suppress weeds.

Every year growers may experience challenges when controlling winter annuals weeds or terminating cover crops with glyphosate-based burndown herbicide programs, specifically when glyphosate is sprayed in cool, cloudy weather conditions or tank mixed with residual herbicides, ATS, or synthetic auxins (issue mostly for grasses).
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