If used as cover crop, winter wheat helps maintain topsoil, preventing soil erosion over winter when many fields lie fallow. Winter wheat out-competes many weed varieties. Can be grown as both cover crop and cash crop. Easy to manage while still providing good yield. Helps build soil (through heavy production of organic material) and cycle nutrients through soil. Uses soil moisture more efficiently since it starts to grow earlier in the spring. Crop is harvested earlier in the season, which is beneficial in regions with rainy autumn weather.
if used as cover crop winter wheat helps maintain topsoil preventing soil erosion over winter when many fields lie fallow winter wheat out-competes many weed varieties can be grown as both cover crop and cash crop easy to manage while still providing good yield helps bui?ld soil (through heavy production of organic material) and cycle nutrients through soil uses soil moisture more efficiently since it starts to grow earlier in the spring crop is harvested earlier in the season which is beneficial in regions with rainy autumn weather