Yet another smell I forgot about...

Someone came to the realization that you could use radish and turnip as a cover crop after you harvest corn or beans.  I don't know when this happened, but I don't remember this occurring when I was growing up in the Putnam Country area.  I only remember people planting winter wheat.
Today, many a field around here is filled with either radish or turnip or a combination of them.  They have many benefits to the soil, outlined in THIS article I found.  I have recently discovered one of the drawbacks of this method of bringing the nitrogen out of the soil: rotting root vegetables smell horrible.
The stench that these suckers produce as they freeze and thaw throughout the winter is astounding.  I had my windows rolled up and was driving down the road yesterday in the 38 degree weather and nearly threw up from the smell.  Think nasty cabbage fart meets the bottom of a trash can on a hot summer day... that is the smell that those fields produce.
The one benefit of this that I can see is that I run faster when I go on a run and have to jog by one of these nasty fields.  I know that there are environmental benefits as well.... but for now I am really hoping that the farmers around my home will stick to barley or rye as their cover crops.