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WELCOME TO THE MIDWEST COVER CROPS COUNCIL WEBSITE

The goal of the Midwest Cover Crops Council (MCCC) is to facilitate widespread adoption of cover crops throughout the Midwest, to improve ecological, economic, and social sustainability.

WHO WE ARE?

The MCCC is a diverse group from academia, production agriculture, non-governmental organizations, commodity interests, private sector, and representatives from federal and state agencies collaborating to address soil, water, air, and agricultural quality concerns in the Great Lakes and Mississippi river basins (including Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Manitoba, Ontario, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and North Dakota).

WHY COVER CROPS?

Cover crops are an effective tool to reduce soil erosion and increase nutrient recycling on farmlands, thereby also decreasing the soil and nutrient loads entering lakes and waterways.  Cover crops can have numerous other benefits including improvement of soil quality, pest management, fertility management, water availability, landscape diversification, and wildlife habitat.

Cover crops survey...coming soon

 

NEWS

Don't Treat Your Soil Like Dirt
Farmer Network Meeting
February 16, 2010
Fort Wayne, IN

Conservation Farming System Field Day
February 23, 2010
Greensburg, IN

2010 MCCC Meeting/Workshop
March 3-4
Ames, IA

New presentation available from Western Illinois University
Cover Crops, Tillage and Soil Quality
(6.7 mb)

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