One of the hottest topics over on the big-farmer forum is cover crops, using tillage radish, rye, peas, and other for the modern version of plow down.
Dad always put some sweet clover under some of the oats.
I have always planted some too. Tho my % of oat ground is very tiny any more. As well as turnips and worked with tillage radish some.
You can't not plant a crop on land worth $300 a year rent, and taxed accordingly. And you can't get the proper amounts of N, P, K, sulphur (back then air pollution supplied all we needed, now we have to add it), and other micros for a perfect replacement blend of fertilizers, so the stuff from a bag has its place.
Manure is great, I wish I could buy some, but living in a top 5 pork producing county, I can't get any, closer neighbors buy everything produced. Just not enough manure available. I can see 7 barns, 900 hogs per, from my property, but not enough manure to go around....
I would say we are trying to find the best of both worlds these days.
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