Cover Crop Strategies editors encounter a variety of articles, social media posts, podcasts and videos that offer a unique look at various aspects of our great agricultural industry. Here is our favorite content from the past week:

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Cover Crops Go Hollywood

A new feature-length documentary film, “Delmarva and the Ground for Change,” by the USDA Northeast Climate Hub, digs deep into growing cover crops and other soil health practices. The film follows three family-owned farming operations on the Delmarva Peninsula (in Delaware and Maryland) who adopted various measures to enhance soil health.

 

Interseeding Cover Crops into Corn

YouTuber Young Red Angus in western Kansas takes us into his corn field, where he interseeded cover crop mixes into corn at V5-V6 on both dryland and irrigated ground. He talks about the different species in the mix, why he’s thinking of interseeding earlier in the future and he explains why his perspective is shifting from using covers as a feed source to using covers to improve soil functionality.

 

Cover Crop Grazing: Josh Ramsburg, Rock Creek Farms

Highlighting the integration of cover crop grazing into a regular crop rotation at Rock Creek Farms, Pa., this video with Josh Ramsburg explains when and where he uses 5-strand high-tensile wire vs. poly wire, how he added a water line and what happened when a storm came through when he was installing the line.

 

Groundswell 2022: Farmer Panel on Intercropping

Didn’t make it to the UK for Groundswell 2022? Unfortunately, neither did we. Thankfully they’ve posted some of the sessions from the 7th annual gathering. In this video, we hear from a panel of farmers who have been building expertise on the best ways to establish, manage and process intercropped fields. They discuss the range of crops that can be teamed up together, the best machines to use and advice on the latest innovations in the practice.

 

Cover Crop Slow Jam

Join the Water Rocks! team as they take a stand against bare land. With a guest appearance from Sarah Carlson of Practical Farmers of Iowa (cover crop rockstar status), learn about the many amazing benefits that cover crops offer, from reducing soil erosion to retaining nutrients, as well as building soil health and supporting a healthy soil food web of earthworms, fungi, microbes, and more. Don’t farm naked!

 

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Salford Group knows cover crops. Salford’s Valmar 56 series seeders set the bar for versatility and accuracy in cover crop seeding. These machines accurately handle a wide variety of seed and blends, while pairing with virtually any implement to seed cover crops while performing other field operations. Salford has a variety of tillage implements that are suitable for seeding with the 56 series applicators. Some Salford tillage machines can be used for hay and pasture renovation, and others can be used to work in standing cover crops as green manure. Check out Salford’s cover crops solutions at salfordgroup.com

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