With the increasing use of cover crops, three questions are often on the minds of farmers:

• Are supplies of cover crop seed keeping pace with demand?

• Are there cost-saving measures that farmers can use when they plant cover crops?

• Are there different seed mixes that farmers should use for grazing or haying the cover crop?

So far cover crop seed supply does not appear to be a problem. Seed supplier Jim Welter, owner of Welter Seed and Honey Co. in Onslow, says they have...