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Survey Shows Increase in Cover Cropping

November 26, 2024 | Posted in Grazing, Soil Health

Source: AgUpdate.com

Results from the annual Iowa Nutrient Research & Education Council crop survey show Iowa farmers planted more than 3.8 million acres of cover crops in the 2023 crop year.

Dry Fall Poses Challenges for Cover Crop Seeding

By Jared White posted on October 29, 2024 | Posted in Seeding Practices, Grazing, Soil Health

Source: Brownfield Ag News

An agronomist says the dry fall has made seeding cover crops a challenge.

Benefits of Integrating Crops and Livestock

October 17, 2024 | Posted in Grazing

Source: AgProud

How can livestock production utilize crop acres? Many producers are finding that cattle, cash crop and cover crop enterprises enhance one another and improve the land long-term

Cover Crops After Harvest Optimal for Forage

By Sandy Johnson, Augustine Obour, John Holman, and Logan Simon posted on July 15, 2024 | Posted in Grazing

Source: Kansas State University

The time following wheat harvest presents a great opportunity to incorporate cover crops.

Grazing Cover Crops Benefits Soil Health in Dryland Systems

K-State researchers have found that grazing cover crops can improve soil health in no-till dryland cropping systems, addressing a key concern for producers in water-limited environments like the central Great Plains.

July 13, 2024 | Posted in Grazing

Kansas State University researchers have found that grazing cover crops can improve soil health in no-till dryland cropping systems, addressing a key concern for producers in water-limited environments like the central Great Plains.

How to Get the Most Bang for Your Buck with Cover Crops

Understanding cover crop trends can shed light on how to increase widespread cover crop adoption

By Mackane Vogel posted on July 13, 2024 | Posted in Grazing, Soil Health

Finding a way to make a solid ROI on cover crops (and no-till) is the key to making these practices more widespread.

Regenerating Soils, Profits and Relationships by Implementing Cover Crops

By Shaye Koester-Wanner posted on July 10, 2024 | Posted in Grazing, Economics

Source: Drovers

What started as two brothers taking over the family operation soon turned into starting a cover crop seed company, which impacts over one million acres of agricultural land annually.

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Covers Used in Solar Corridor Crop System Increase Yield, Grazing Potential

By C. LeRoy Deichman posted on February 8, 2024 | Posted in Seeding Practices, Grazing

A solar corridor is the space between rows of a relatively tall plant like corn that is wide enough for significant amounts of incident sunlight to reach the cover crop growing between the corn rows.

Dryland Wheat Farmers Eye Cover Crops as Solution for Lack of Rain

By Charles H. Featherstone posted on June 19, 2023 | Posted in Grazing, Soil Health

Source: The Spokesman-Review

The dryland wheat farming region of Washington state is probably the driest place in the world where farmers manage to grow wheat without irrigation, according to Surendra Singh, the new director of Washington State University’s Lind Dryland Research Station.