I am often asked, “Can I graze cover crops?” The answer is yes, you can. Sometimes a label we give something pigeonholes it for a specific purpose, making it difficult to think about its use in other ways. When cover crops became a hot topic a few years ago, I tried to relabel them as “forage-covers” because they are multiuse crops — they provide ecosystem services, feed and forage to livestock. The term forage-covers never took off. I guess it …
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