Fact Sheets

Cover Crops for Home Gardens

This Center for Regenerative Agriculture handout offers a list of suggested cover crop species suitable for use in a home garden.

Integrating Practices That Benefit Wildlife With Crops Grown for Biomass in Missouri

This MU Extension guide describes management practices that can be conducted in fields used for biomass production to benefit wildlife.

Creating Inviting Pollinator Habitats in Agriculture

This Center for Regenerative Agriculture handout offers advice to integrate pollinator habitats within your farming systems.

Using Cover Crops to Improve Water Quality

This resource discusses how cover crops can can improve water quality by reducing erosion, runoff, and leaching by improving soil health.

Cover Crops: A Cost-Effective Tool for Controlling Erosion

This resource discusses the costs of soil erosion and explains how cover crops and reduced tillage can limit erosion before it begins by protecting soil from raindrops and increasing infiltration.

Ecosystem Services from Cover Crops – SARE fact sheets

SARE’s Ecosystem Services from Cover Crops resources address the role of cover crops in nutrient management, erosion, infiltration, soil organic matter, supporting wildlife and beneficial insects, and carbon sequestration. They are available for use by educators, farmers and others interested in sharing information about the role of cover crops in protecting water quality. View the...

10 Ways Cover Crops Enhance Soil Health

This fact sheet from Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) describes the 10 key impacts of cover crops on soil health.

A Whole-Farm Approach to Managing Pests: SARE

This guide by Sustainable Agriculture Research and Extension (SARE) overviews how to manage insects using ecological principles and strategies.

Alternative Crops Factsheets – MU Extension

These factsheets from MU extension overview the use and management of canola, buckwheat, millets, and sunflowers as alternative crops.