Once portrayed as the last of the cultivated weeds, oats are making a comeback. But other crops, such as alfalfa and annual rye grass can also help you produce forage or build soil structure
by PAT LYNCH
If you want to reduce erosion, build soil structure and organic matter or produce forage for feed, consider summer seedings.
There is a long, extensive list of various crops which can do this, so I will concentrate on the main ones. These are oats, alfalfa and miscellaneous ones such as peas, tillage radish and rye grass.