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12:44 pm
Fri October 26, 2012

Field Notes: Making the most of cover crops

Credit Amy Mayer/Harvest Public Media
The green shoots of young cover crops come up through corn residue on a field in Boone County, Iowa.

This is the latest installment of Harvest Public Media’s Field Notes, in which reporters talk to newsmakers and experts about important issues related to food production.

For this edition of Field Notes, Harvest Public Media's Amy Mayer spoke with Tom Kaspar, a plant physiologist at the National Lab for Agriculture and the Environment, about the importance of cover crops in how our food is grown.

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