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Restoring the Soil through Cover Crops (Jackson 1/2)

January 8, 2019 Video

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Before we began our Cover 5 project last fall, we asked each farmer involved to show us their worst performing plot of land. After all, what better way to display the power of soil health than through taking land no one wants and transforming it into land that consistently out-produces the rest?

… For those still farming conventionally, this bold approach would appear to be destined for failure. But Don Jackson of Laurens County is beginning to experience just what we had in mind.

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