Summer cover cropping for weed management. Part 1: practical perspectives

In 2019 and 2020, the University of New England worked with the team from the Greater Sydney Local Land Services (GS LLS) Demonstration Farm in the Richmond Lowlands, New South Wales, on a two-season trial to explore the effects of different cover crops in suppressing weeds in vegetable production.

In this video, Mario Muscat from the GS LLS Demonstration Farm discusses the positives and negatives of the various cover crop treatments included in this trial, from the weed management perspective but also the practicalities of growing each treatment during the warm and humid summer fallow period in the Richmond district.

We are grateful to Peter Conasch, Mario Muscat and Nikki McGrath from GS LLS for their support in producing this video, and sharing their story.

Further information on this project is available at: