Dave some thing I have done to get a cover crop that will die out over the winter is to seed spring oats in late summer. There really is nothing that will bind much nitrogen as a fall cover.
When the CRP program was getting a lot of acres in the late 1980s, I seeded down several farms for the land owners.
I worked the ground in mid to late August. Then seeded down oats with grass. The oats would get about a foot tall and then freeze out over the winter. Then the grass would come right through the next spring.
I just used clean feed oats not seed oats. Keeps the cost down and seemed to work well.
As for the rest of your soil building. I have ran into farmed to death fields before. Check the PH to see if you need any lime. I found most had the PH all out of sink too. Also have a soil test for trace elements. Zinc, sulfur, and boron are needed for a good corn crop.
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