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Cover Crop Strategies' Best of the Web: May 17, 2024

May 17, 2024

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. The Best of the Web This Week series is brought to you by Saddle Butte Ag.

Cover Crops Help Soil Profitability

Finding right varieties and proper seeding practices is key to maximizing benefits and generating carbon.

By Raylene Nickel posted on May 14, 2024 | Posted in Seeding Practices, Soil Health

Source: Successful Farming

Stopping soil erosion was the driving force behind the Sylling family’s decision to switch to no-till more than two decades ago. At the time, brothers Myron and Mikal farmed in partnership with their father, Karl, on a corn-and-soybean farm in the hilly country of southeastern Minnesota, near Spring Grove.

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[Video] Hairy Vetch Breeding Program Aiming for More Biomass, Early Vigor

May 10, 2024 | Posted in Seeding Practices

Lisa Kissing Kucek, USDA plant research geneticist, explains the results from the hairy vetch breeding program at the U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center in North Freedom, Wis.

Switching Up Cover Crop Routine Proves Beneficial

By Allison Lund posted on May 4, 2024 | Posted in Soil Health

Source: Farm Progress

When is a good time to change your cover crop routine? According to Carter Morgan, Cayuga, Ind., an early harvest could create the perfect environment for testing out new cover crop combinations on some acreage.

Steve Groff's Winter King Hairy Vetch Survives Multiple Freeze-Thaw Cycles

By Mackane Vogel posted on March 25, 2024 | Posted in Seeding Practices, Termination

Steve Groff never planned to develop a new variety of cover crop. In fact, the Holtwood, Pa., no-tiller and cover crop expert believes that he is more often recognized for his contribution of the tillage radish as a cover crop in the early 2000s.

Steve Groff's 6 Latest Cover Crop Trends

By Maclaren Krueger posted on October 27, 2023 | Posted in Soil Health

Steve Groff, a world renowned cover crop innovator and coach, spoke at the 2023 National Cover Crop Summit about the current cover crop trends that he’s seen among today’s farmers.

Roller-Crimping Cover Crops in Organic Systems Reduces Tillage, Suppresses Weeds

By delaying roller-crimper termination of hairy vetch and cereal rye cover crops until they reach optimum reproductive stages, organic growers can enjoy weed suppression and avoid volunteer problems in cash crops.

December 27, 2022 | Posted in Seeding Practices, Termination

By delaying roller-crimper termination of hairy vetch and cereal rye cover crops until they reach optimum reproductive stages, organic growers can enjoy weed suppression and avoid volunteer problems in cash crops.

New 'Vinter' Variety of Hairy Vetch Released

‘Vinter’ is a new hairy vetch variety with superior winter survival and spring biomass production.

By Craig Sheaffer Extension forage agronomist and Nancy Ehlke Professor, Dept. of Agronomy and Plant Genetics posted on November 18, 2022 | Posted in Soil Health

Source: University of Minnesota Extension

‘Vinter’ is a new hairy vetch variety with superior winter survival and spring biomass production.

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Cover Crop Strategies' Best of the Web: Nov. 4, 2022

November 4, 2022

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. The Best of the Web This Week series is brought to you by Salford Group.

Reddick Farms Goes All in on No-Till and Cover Crops in Kentucky

Father-son duo takes leap of faith after eye-opening experience at National No-Tillage Conference.

August 30, 2022

No-till is nothing new for the Reddick family. Brad Reddick remembers growing up on the 1,800-acre farm in Bardwell, Ky., watching his father no-till the rolling grounds and conventionally till the creek bottom grounds over 50 years ago.