Management 

• Cover Cropping for Vegetable Production – This handbook describes cool and warm-season cover crops for vegetable operations and their effects on water management, pest management, and farm economics (book) 

• Cover Crop in Organic Systems – Western States Implementation Guide – This guide provides detailed information on cover crop use within organic systems (NRCS Guide) 

• Summer Crop Use in Arizona Vegetable Production Systems – This article discusses cover crop selection and benefits specific to Arizona vegetable production systems (Extension Publication) 

• Winter Cover Crops for Nevada Agriculture – This article describes how cover crops can be incorporated into high desert agricultural regions (Extension Publication) 

Tillage & Conservation Practices 

• Cover Cropping and Conservation Tillage in California Processing Tomatoes – This article discusses conservation tillage and cover crop management and cost in processing tomato rotations (Extension Publication) 

• No-Till Case Study, Richter Farm: Cover Crop Cocktails in a Forage-Based System – Learn about using multi-species cover crops after an early forage harvest to restore residue, organic matter, and soil nutrients for the cash crop (article) 

• No-Till Case Study, Miller Farm: Restoring Grazing Land with Cover Crops – This publication describes the benefits of a cover crop cocktail to break up the old plow layer, increase nutrient cycling, and improve productivity (article) 

• Reduced Tillage in Organic Vegetable Systems – This educational video explains the benefits and use of reduced tillage and cover cropping applications in the Pacific Northwest (video) 

• Adaptive Management for Conservation Practices, Agronomy Technical Note No. 10 – This guide sheet shares the adaptive management approach to cropping systems that allows farmers to modify their management practices in response to different variables (NRCS Technical Note) 

• Equipment to manage Cover Crops in Annual Rotations – This article shares information on selecting and using equipment for cover crop management and termination (Extension Publication)