Do cover crops use up essential nutrients?

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[josephmccoy]

Depends on what cover crop your doing and your carbon to nitrogen ratio, your also preventing erosion and secretion of carbon is important for soil health

[heavymetalbassist]

Smaller scale, I compost it and add it back

[dalehodges]

It holds water, promotes biodiversity and hosts mycelium for mineral availability. This is a big reason organic food tastes better and soil improves.

[sgtsawhill]

I see cover crop as another way to get farmers to buy more

[orvalaltwasser]

Nope. Nature is pretty close to perfect, but not that perfect. The cover crop always uses more nutrients as it grows, than it returns to the soil, when it dies. If this guy was correct, I’d like to sell him my perpetual motion machine!