Are you looking to reduce input costs in 2023? Extend the grazing season? Improve soil health? Use the symbiotic power of plant diversity to help you accomplish these goals.
The fundamentals
Why Plant Diversity?
Monoculture Environment: plants are all competing for the same sunlight, moisture & nutrients - all at the exact same time. This is competition.
Multi-Species Environment: plants are forming symbiotic relationships with rhizobium bacteria, mycorrhizal fungi, and other soil micro-organisms to fix, solubilize & share nutrients (and water). This is collaboration.
Image: Competition vs. Collaboration
Reduce Input Costs
Full Season cover Crop blends
If you're looking to reduce input costs while also providing a high-quality, balanced feed ration, consider these full-season annual cover crop forage options.
Cool Season Cover: A full-season cover option without the insurance (drought tolerance) of warm-season plant species. Ideal blend under irrigation or sowing early. Regrowth.
Agronomic Tip: Sow this blend as early as possible as all plant species are cool season.
Supply For 2023: Sold Out
NDURE Inoculant must be applied.
Full Season Cover: Our most popular blend. Lower input costs, provide a balanced feed ration & transform your soil to infiltrate & hold water. Regrowth.
Agronomic Tip: Sow this blend when soil temperature is between 6-10 degrees C.
Supply for 2023: Sold Out
NDURE Inoculant must be applied.
Warm Season Cover: Do you farm in dry conditions? C4 plants have evolved to photosynthesize in conditions of little moisture & high temperatures. Regrowth.
Agronomic Tip: Sow this blend when soil temperature is above 10 degrees C.
Supply for 2023: Sold Out
NDURE Inoculant must be applied.
Maximize sunlight & Moisture
Situational forage Options
To maximize biomass and improve soil health, it's important to select plant species that are aligned with the specific context they will be growing in.
Sod Seeded Cover: These annual plant species selected in this blend will give you your best chance of penetrating and establishing a root system in sod.
Agronomic Tip: Sow this blend when soil temperature is above 10 degrees C.
Supply for 2023: Sold Out
NDURE Inoculant must be applied.
Fall Forage Cover: Take advantage of moisture and “wasted” sunlight in late fall and early spring with these cool-season biennial/winter annual plant species.
Agronomic Tip: Consider this blend in the fall to maximize sunlight in early spring.
Supply for 2023: Sold Out
NDURE Inoculant must be applied.
Salinity Cover: A convenient blend of salt-tolerant annual & perennial plant species selected for their EC (electrical conductivity) tolerance to help you best manage salinity.
We are currently researching this blend on the farm and from a 3rd party perspective for the 2023 growing season.
Remember to keep expectations in check when sowing into saline areas.