'Pasture cropping' boosts soil, cuts input costs.

This "pasture cropping" - integrating crops and livestock to regenerate soil health - maintains perennial grasses in a pasture for livestock to graze while simultaneously growing annual crops. Dryland cover crops for grazing In eastern Washington, dryland farmers work with the Okanogan Conservation District and the Washington State Department of Agriculture to integrate cover crops and livestock grazing. Graph WINTER FOOD: Dryland farmers near Okanogan, Wash., intercrop a cover crop with their cash crop for winter livestock grazing. [Extracted from the article]