Toronto Star: Soil is their baby. How farmers use regenerating practices to protect their crops and mimic nature

Like many farmers, Mowbray works with agricultural experts, advisors — and in his case, university researchers — to deal with such production challenges and unlock opportunities. He’s in the sixth year of an on-farm study with a team led by University of Manitoba researcher and professor Yvonne Lawley to determine the best way to use what are called cover crops on his farm.

Cover crops are aptly named. “Their purpose is to sustain the soil and the environment,” said Lawley. Farmers grow them to cover erosion-prone land. Unlike grain and other crops, they are seldom grown to sell and rarely harvested.

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