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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Understanding the ‘Why’ of Cover Crops

In this edition of Farming Forward by Real Agriculture, Dr. Kris Nichols, a soil microbiologist with Food Water Wellness Foundation, dives into the reasons why producers have been getting excited about diverse cover crop mixtures. Nichols also offers some common sense suggestions on how to get the most out of your cover crop seed.

Making a No-Till Drill More Effective for Cover Crop Seeding

Rob Dowdle’s new LMC Ag no-till drill is not effective enough because it is too light. In this video he shows how he is adding some weight to it so that he can seed cover crops of sorghum sudan grass, forage soybeans, sunflowers and buckwheat into his hard, compacted clay soils in Mississippi to improve grazing conditions and increase soil health.

Planting Corn Directly into 3 Foot Tall Cover Crops

In this video from Grow the Farm Up, learn how to plant corn into a 3 foot tall, living cover crop and more importantly — discover the benefits of this planting method.

John Oliver Tackles the U.S. Corn & Ethanol Situation

John Oliver, host of Last Week Tonight, looks into federal subsidies effects and ethanol standards upholding America’s number 1 crop — corn.

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Scalable Solutions for Organic No-Till & Cover Crop Systems

Large scale organic farms looking to transition to no-till have very few solutions suitable to their scale. Massachusetts farmer Lincoln Fishman has experimented with a number of no-till systems, and has found growing annual cash crops in a perennial living cover of Dutch White clover to be the most scalable and promising. The first half of this video explores this production system while the second half serves as a brainstorming session and attempts to answer these questions: what are the barriers to experimenting with this system? What other scalable systems are growers experimenting with? What resources can growers use as they transition to large scale no-till?

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