Cover crops - Articles

[Podcast] Designing a Cover Crop Mix and Managing Your Creation

In this episode of the No-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Yetter Manufacturing, we're joined by Adam Daugherty who will discuss planting logistics when no-tillers are seeding cover crop mixes, including the pros and cons of different tools available to get seed in the ground.

October 25, 2018 | Posted in Termination

In this episode of the No-Till Farmer podcast, brought to you by Yetter Manufacturing, we're joined by Adam Daugherty who will discuss planting logistics when no-tillers are seeding cover crop mixes, including the pros and cons of different tools available to get seed in the ground.

[Video] 60-Inch Corn: Fact or Fiction?

September 17, 2018 | Posted in Seeding Practices

Researcher Bob Recker explains the benefits and challenges of planting, fertilizing and harvesting 60-inch corn, along with considerations for combatting weed pressure.

Carbonomics: Opening a Carbon Currency Exchange Within a No-Till Soil Ecosystem

Crop diversity and biological activity in a cover-cropped farming system ensures healthy interactions between plants, roots and soil organisms, says Keith Berns.

By Mark McNeely posted on March 10, 2018 | Posted in Soil Health

Likening a healthy, robust industrial economy to the types of biological activities taking place underground in a no-till, cover-cropped farming system isn’t a stretch of the imagination, says Keith Berns.

Late Fall Herbicide Treatments for Cover Crops?

October 26, 2017

When thinking about crop covers you should consider a few things for fall herbicide treatment to help manage marestail.

[Podcast] A Sensible Approach to Cover Cropping in Strip-Till

This week we welcome strip-tiller Mike Verdonck to share how he adopted a constant cover cropping system to accelerate soil recovery after harvesting cash crops as well as some of the soil rehabilitative benefits of combining cover crops and strip-till.

October 18, 2017

This week we welcome strip-tiller Mike Verdonck to share how he adopted a constant cover cropping system to accelerate soil recovery after harvesting cash crops as well as some of the soil rehabilitative benefits of combining cover crops and strip-till.

Cover Crop Accomplishments

May 23, 2017

Bret Margraf talks about why they added cover crops to their no-till operation several years ago, what they’re currently trying to achieve with them, the benefits they’re seeing and why he feels no-tillers can see a benefit from cover crops after the first year.

March 2017 Poll: Yield Increase from Cover Crops

February 17, 2017 | Posted in Economics

Do you believe you’ve seen a yield increase from using cover crops on your no-till operation, and if so, how much?

Conservation Stewardship Program Deadline is Looming

January 24, 2017 | Posted in Soil Health

Farmers and ranchers have until Feb. 3 to submit initial applications for the Conservation Stewardship Program to the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS).