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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Grazing Cover Crops on a Vegetable Farm

Carmen Black of Sundog Farm in Solon, Iowa, gives an overview of how she grazes different animal species on cover crops as part of a diversified vegetable farm. Learn more about the essential role of cover crops in the systems of the farm along with considerations for food safety when grazing covers.

Cover Croppers Honored in Farm Science Review

The Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) recognized five families as winners of the 2023 Conservation Farm Family Awards at the Farm Science Review in London. Three of the five winners are using cover crops on their operations.

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Seed Terminator Could Help Cover Croppers Fight Herbicide-Resistant Weeds

In this video from GROW IWM, learn how brothers Dale and Nick Druffel are using a seed impact mill, the Seed Terminator, to fight herbicide-resistant weeds on their operation near Uniontown, Wash.

Seeding Cover Crops with No-Till Drill

Planting cover crops without a no-till drill and without disking the soil can be a challenge. In this video, Rod Dowdle from Dowdle Family Farms in Mississippi tries to take advantage of some rain to plant fall cover crops on this pig paddock.

Study Says Cover Crops & No-Till Make Farmers More Money

Much of the research on cover crops and no-till has looked at the benefits to the environment and the soil. Now a new study from the Soil Health Institute finds these farming practices also have strong economic benefits for farmers.

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