Description
Cover Crop Seed Mix – Build Soil Health & Boost Crop Yields
Our premium cover crop seed mix includes a powerful blend of legumes, grasses, and brassicas to enhance soil fertility, control weeds, and support sustainable farming. Each species offers unique benefits, making this mix ideal for building organic matter, improving tilth, and prepping fields for productive future planting.
Hairy Vetch
A winter-hardy legume known for its nitrogen-fixing ability, hairy vetch enhances soil fertility, prevents erosion, and suppresses weeds. Its dense spring growth forms a mulch that supports moisture retention and reduces weed pressure. It also improves crop disease resistance and photosynthesis, while adding protein and tonnage to forage or hay systems. Drought-tolerant and suitable for grazing or harvesting as forage.
Spring Oats
A fast-growing, cool-season annual grass, oats offer excellent forage potential, weed suppression, and erosion control. They improve soil softness and moisture retention, especially when used in chem fallow systems. Oats are a reliable, cost-effective option for spring planting or as a fall cover crop following corn silage, vegetables, or wheat.
Brassicas (Radish, Turnips, Rapeseed, Collards)
Brassicas grow quickly and provide excellent weed suppression through shading and natural compounds called glucosinolates. Their varied root structures break up different soil compaction levels—from shallow bulbs (turnips) to deep-penetrating tubers (radishes). Most species winterkill and decompose rapidly, adding nutrients back into the soil. Best used in mixes with grasses to prevent nutrient loss.
Radish
Rape Seed
Collards
Radish
Cereal Rye
The most winter-hardy of cereals, rye provides heavy biomass, soil stabilization, and excellent weed control—even in poor soils. It grows well late into fall, resumes quickly in spring, and pairs well with legumes like hairy vetch. It’s ideal for green manure, grazing, haying, or green chopping. Perfect for nitrate retention and reducing herbicide reliance before soybean crops.
Forage Peas
Cold-tolerant and nitrogen-fixing, forage peas thrive in spring conditions and improve forage quality when mixed with oats or other cereals. They perform well on various soil types but are less tolerant of waterlogging. Best seeded early (April–mid-May), forage peas are excellent for silage, hay, or green manure, leaving behind nitrogen for the next crop.
Sorghum Sudan / Millet
These heat-loving summer annuals add significant biomass and help restore worn-out soils. Their rapid growth suppresses weeds and certain nematodes, while deep roots break up compacted subsoil. Sorghum-Sudan grass hybrids are especially productive and drought-tolerant, requiring good fertility. While not frost-tolerant, they’re ideal for summer planting and soil renovation when followed by legumes.
Sorghum Sudan
Millett
