Translations:Manfred Klett: Von der Agrartechnologie zur Landbaukunst/831/en

Cover crops enrich the species diversity of the crop rotation and increase the humus turnover. Through undersowing, stubble sowings, and winter cover crops, the life organisation of the farm organism can manifest itself still more powerfully and with greater equanimity. While the harvested produce of the market crops — the food for human beings — leaves the farm, the cover crops remain on the holding, as do the main fodder plants of the crop rotation, as it were as living nourishment for the maintenance and increase of soil fertility — indeed, for the healing and thriving of the farm organism as a whole.