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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Do Cover Crops Help During Drought?

Check out this video and see how one West Tennessee farmer handled the drought of 2022. Take a close look at his cotton crop and see how cover crops and soil health helped his crops hold on through the dry season.

Relay Cropping & Interseeding at Michigan Virtual Field Day

In this video, check out some footage from a Cropping System Resilience Virtual Field Day with Michigan farmers Tim Boring and Drew Hasenick, who discuss relay cropping, interseeding covers and no-till dry beans.

Boosting Feed Inventories with Cover Crops as Alternative Forages

In this article, learn about how cover crops and sorghum-sudangrass can provide economical feed options for beef and dairy producers.

Cheap Feed

CHEAP FEED: Cover crops, like the triticale and ryelage being chopped here, provide extra insurance in case drought or winterkill wipes out your main forage sources, says Richard Halopka, Extension crops and soils agent in Clark County, Wis. Photo by: Fran O'Leary

Will Cover Crops Use Up All My Moisture?

Keith Berns, co-founder of cover crop seed mix company Green Cover, explains how Green Cover got started and answers the key question: Won't cover crops use up all of my moisture?

Weed Control Using Cereal Rye

Research at the University of Illinois has found that a cover crop, in this case cereal rye, offers a significant benefit to combatting waterhemp. In this video, researcher Jasmine Mausbach compares soybean test plots with and without a cover crop, and with and without waterhemp.

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