Full Season Cover Establishment — A Plant Diversity Company

Connecting Farmers To Soil Health

Hello, Friends.

We wanted to touch on some expectations as your Full Season Cover establishes itself. Once the crop is germinated & emerging, the lower plant population can cause the plant stand to look thin. This is a very important time in the life of the Full Season Cover. The battle for sunlight is afoot. We’ve purposely suppressed the cereal population so the slower-establishing crops can get a fair shot at sunlight before the quicker-establishing cereals dominate the canopy.

This is why the Full Season Cover will always look thin compared to monocrop barley or oats in the early stages of its life.

Below we will discuss what to expect, patience, and the importance of symbiosis/establishment.

This is our blend philosophy.

The goal of all our blends is to achieve plant/soil symbiosis. So what is plant/soil symbiosis?

Once a hierarchy has been established (due to the lower plant populations), all plants can now work in symbiosis with the soil via root exudates, the mycorrhizal fungal network & soil biology. This symbiosis allows for unavailable nutrients to be accessed and shared among all plant species.

From here, rapid biomass accumulation will take place.

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Importance of seed to Soil Contact

As seen in the pictures below, poor seed-to-soil contact caused very poor emergence in this Full Season Cover crop. Although establishment was slow and not ideal, plant diversity generally prevails.

Image: from left to right - 28 days. — **Image:** from left to right - 28 days.

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Farmer Panel Perspective

Listen to Brett Seymour, a farmer from Darlingford, Mb, talk about the Full Season Cover and the patience necessary when the crop is establishing its plant hierarchy.