Definition: An annual plant completes its entire life cycle within one growing season. Annual plant species will not overwinter.
Annual Cover Crops
Starter Cover® (Low Cost Option)
Full Season Cover® (Most Popular)
Warm Season Cover®
Haymaker Oats + Super Oats + Italian Rye Grass (2000 Ibs)
Forage Soybeans LS®
Definition: A biennial plant completes its entire life cycle in two years. Biennial plant species will overwinter. (Over-wintering will depend on winter conditions)
Biennial Cover Crops
Full Season Cover (Overwinter)®
Fall Forage Cover®
*We are excited to launch the Full Season Cover® with overwintering capabilities for 2026.
Definition: A perennial plant is capable of continuous life cycles over multiple years. Perennial plant species will overwinter year after year.
Perennial Cover Crops
Hay Cover: Light Land®
Hay Cover: Heavy Land®
Salinity Cover®
Pasture Cover®
Rejuvenation Cover®
Why Plant Diversity?
Multi-species vs. monocultures
Monoculture Environment: plants are all competing for the same sunlight, moisture & nutrients - all at the exact same time. This is competition.
Multi-Species Environment: Plants are forming symbiotic relationships with rhizobium bacteria, mycorrhizal fungi, and other soil micro-organisms to fix, solubilize & share nutrients (and water). This is collaboration.
Image: Competition vs. Collaboration
Why Plant diversity
Access free minerals
With 96% of a plant composed of sunlight & water, implementing plant diversity on the farm maximizes sunlight capture (photosynthesis) & water infiltration.
Carbon: 45%
Oxygen: 45%
Hydrogen: 6%
This 96% is free from the atmosphere through sunlight & water.
Source: Texas A&M University. AgrLife Extension
Why Plant Diversity?
An Insurance policy w/ mother nature
A blend of warm & cool-season plant species provides an insurance policy with Mother Nature. If hot/dry conditions are present, warm-season plant species will accumulate biomass. If cool/wet conditions are present, cool-season plant species will accumulate biomass.
Warm Season Plants (C4) have evolved in hot/dry environments.
Cool Season Plants (C3) have evolved in cool/wet environments.