ABOVE PHOTO: NEW LIFE. Warsaw, Ind., grower Mike Long retooled this used 20-foot rotary hoe with drop tubes and a Gandy linear applicator to seed annual ryegrass and hairy vetch cover crops into standing corn at V5 on plots in northern Indiana. Long handled the project for the Oregon Ryegrass Commission.
No-Tillers around the Corn Belt are continuing to find innovative ways to interseed cover crops into standing crops earlier in the year.
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Last week we had boots on the ground at the Big Soil Health Event in Cedar Falls, Iowa where agronomist David Kleinschmidt emphasized the importance of considering Carbon to Nitrogen ratios of cover crops and residues.
