Cover Crop Strategies' Best of the Web: August 26, 2022

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:

U.S. Soil Judging Team Wins First Place at World Contest
Sunflower Fields Forever
Cover Crops Save Tennessee Farmer’s Bottom Line and Fish Population
The “Rite Way” to Roll Cover Crops
Interseeding Results in Northwest Ohio

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U.S. Soil Judging Team Wins First Place at World Contest

U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A! Congratulations to the American soil judging team on their first-place finish at the World Congress of Soil Science in Glasgow, Scotland. Nebraska’s Kennadi Griffis, Wisconsin-Platteville’s Isaac Nollen, and Virginia Tech’s Clare Tallamy and Ben Atkins, captured soil supremacy at the 20th annual contest.

Sunflower Fields Forever

Here’s one of the coolest things you’ll see this week. This video, from Jon Stevens, takes us inside Treasured Haven Farm’s famous sunflower fields in Rush City, Minnesota. Jon gets the scoop from co-owner Pete Johnson and his son, Ike, on why the fields have become a fixture in the community and provide a unique source of revenue.

Cover Crops Save Tennessee Farmer’s Bottom Line and Fish Population

Jimmy Standefer has been using cover crops for nearly 50 years (!) on his 700-acre farm just west of Chattanooga, Tennessee. The cover cropping legend reflects on his epic journey in this 1-on-1 interview with Tennessee Aquarium. He also explains how cover crops boost his bottom line and protect local aquatic life.

The “Rite Way” to Roll Cover Crops

“Young Red Angus” takes us along for the journey as he rolls his summer cover crops for the first time, using a Rite Way Crush-Rite crop roller. The western Kansas farmer planted the mix (jimmy red corn, sunflower, buckwheat, sunn hemp and daikon radish) in early June.

WATCH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q1mdc6jHM8&t=123s

Interseeding Results in Northwest Ohio

A farmer in Ottawa, Ohio interseeded rapeseed, radish, sunn hemp and cereal rye into corn this year with Fennig Equipment’s S2S Interseeder. In this video, the company visits the farm to see if their interseeding unit delivered quality seed to soil contact.

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