CSP Practice Type: Cover Crops & Crop Diversification

Practice	Contracts
Use deep rooted crops to breakup soil compaction	28
Silvopasture for wildlife habitat	20
Use of Cover Crop Mixes	20
Multi-story cropping, sustainable management of nontimber forest plants	12
Resource-Conserving Crop Rotation	11
Use of legume cover crops as a nitrogen source	8
Conservation Crop Rotation	7
Continuous cover crops	5
Plant an annual grass-type cover crop that will scavenge residual nitrogen	5
Transition to Organic Cropping Systems	5
Use of non-chemical methods to kill cover crops	2
Cover Crop	1
Cover cropping in orchards, vineyards and other woody perennial horticultural crops	1

Practice Type: Cover Crops & Crop Diversification

Signup	Contracts
2010-1	62
2010-2	21
2011-1	21
2012-1	14
2013-1	7

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