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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Planting a Cover Crop using Vintage Massey Ferguson Tractor and Implements

In this video, Lance Mullin of Taranaki, New Zealand, uses his vintage Massey Ferguson 65 and Massey Ferguson 732 Multi Purpose Seed Drill to plant a cover crop where he has just finished harvesting potatoes for the season.

Best Cover Crops for Organic Farming

Perennial or annual cover crops — which is the best for organic growers? Weeds are a problem for any farmer, but they are especially a problem for organic farmers. In this video, Dr. Hurisso and Tim Reinbott of University of Missouri explain their joint cover crop research project taking place at the Lincoln University's Busby Research Farm in Jefferson City, Missouri.

Chopping Cover Crops with Vintage Choppers & Horses in Pennsylvania’s Amish Land

Watch as winter cover crops are chopped for silage by pull behind forage harvesters in Lancaster County, Pa., Amish Land during the spring of 2024.

Gabe Brown Discusses Essential Role of Cover Crops in a Regenerative Farming System

In this YouTube Short, Gabe Brown visits Ralston Family Farms in Atkins, Ark., to chat about regenerative farming, cover crops and the other practices he put in place over 20 years ago. Brown believes these practices are essential to help protect the soil and environment for generations to come.

“I Wouldn’t Hesitate to Fill a Glass of Rainwater from my Cover Crop Fields and Drink It”

In this video from Kentucky Farm Bureau, learn about the benefits cover crops have for combating water pollution and why one farmer believes the rainwater from his field is cleaner than most other groundwater in the state.

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