Summer Cover Crops on Long Island

Join us for a Soil Health Field Day in Suffolk County/ Long Island, focusing on summer cover crops. This event is part of the 2024 Soil Health and Climate Resiliency Field Days, offering valuable insights and hands-on demonstrations to enhance soil health.

Hands-on learning opportunities and expert insights will be at the forefront, ensuring participants have the tools to enact positive change on their farms and communities. Attendees can network with peers, exchange ideas, and explore innovative solutions to pressing agricultural challenges.

This soil health field day will include demonstrations of summer cover crops, including annual ryegrass, sunn hemp, cowpea, berseem clover, teff, sorghum sudangrass, pearl millet, mustard, and buckwheat. It will also include information about planting dates, rates, and how to incorporate summer cover crops into your system.