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New Technique for Silage with Cover Crops

By John Dobberstein posted on November 29, 2019 | Posted in Seeding Practices
For many growers who took a prevented planting claim, 2019 might have been their first foray into cover crops. There’s always a learning curve to go through, but sometimes it leads to new ways of approaching challenges. Read on to see how a Minnesota livestock operation tackled their feed problems with covers.
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[Podcast] Making Cover Crops Work in Area with Less Than 20-Inch Rainfall: Part 1

While cover crops are being utilized across the U.S., in all 50 states, adoption has lagged behind a bit in semi-arid climates due to concerns about soil moisture being depleted. (Courtesy of Cover Crop Innovators)
November 26, 2019 | Posted in Seeding Practices
While cover crops are being utilized across the U.S., in all 50 states, adoption has lagged behind a bit in semi-arid climates due to concerns about soil moisture being depleted. (Courtesy of Cover Crop Innovators)
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Ask Your Cover Crop Seed Dealer the Tough Questions

November 19, 2019 | Posted in Seeding Practices, Soil Health
Buying cover crop seed should be a transaction that benefits everyone involved—the grower and the seed dealer. That means asking the right questions to get the product you want and need for your operation. Pennsylvania cover crop expert Steve Groff shares the top 5 questions to ask the next time you buy cover crop seed.




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Weather Delaying Cover Crop Drilling in the Midwest

November 8, 2019 | Posted in Seeding Practices
Source: Rock Island Dispatch-Argus
From rain to snow, the harvest season has seen its fair share of delays across the Midwest. Cover crop applications have been progressing, and with aerial applications wrapping up in many areas, Justin King, a resource conservationist with the Illinois NRCS, said seeding has been a little more challenging this year. Read more in this article from the Rock Island Dispatch-Argus.
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Learning From Cover Crop Failures

November 5, 2019 | Posted in Seeding Practices, Soil Health
Like all aspects of farming, growing cover crops doesn’t always go as intended. Pennsylvania cover crop expert Steve Groff says that how cover croppers react to failure is critical for learning and doing better the next time. Groff shares ideas on how to deal with several areas where cover cropping can go awry, including weather, herbicides, equipment and management, and shares stories from his own cover crop failures.








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[Video] Three Reasons to Use Covers

November 4, 2019 | Posted in Seeding Practices
Barry Martin plants peanuts, cotton, corn, soybeans, wheat and grain sorghum, and uses strip till. Rye is his main cover crop, which he burns down before planting peanuts to minimize problems with the cornstalk borer, which appears to thrive in heavy vegetation.
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Earlier this week we paid another visit to this year’s Conservation Ag Operator Fellow, Ray McCormick in Vincennes, Ind., and one thing about Ray is that even when it’s the “off season,” he’s still thinking ahead for next season.
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