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Digging Deeper: How Cover Crops Enhance Soil Health

Healthy soil is a limited resource, and new soil forms incredibly slowly. Some farmers are planting cover crops to protect their fields from erosion and reap the bounty of benefits they provide the soil.
By Ruscena Wiederholt posted on December 7, 2024 | Posted in Soil Health
Source: Triple Pundit
Healthy soil is a limited resource, and new soil forms incredibly slowly. Some farmers are planting cover crops to protect their fields from erosion and reap the bounty of benefits they provide the soil.
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[Podcast] Cover Crop Mixes, Seeding Methods & Farm History with Jay Baxter

In this episode of the Cover Crop Strategies podcast, brought to you by GS3 Quality Seed, we travel to Jay Baxter’s farm in Georgetown, Del., and talk to him about cover crop seeding and termination methods, his opinion on multi-species cover crop mixes, the rich history of his family farm and much more.
By Mackane Vogel posted on June 21, 2024 | Posted in Seeding Practices, Termination
In this episode of the Cover Crop Strategies podcast, brought to you by GS3 Quality Seed, we travel to Jay Baxter’s farm in Georgetown, Del., and talk to him about cover crop seeding and termination methods, his opinion on multi-species cover crop mixes, the rich history of his family farm and much more.
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[Podcast] Outside-The-Box Cover Crop Ideas with Agronomist Joe Ailts

In this episode of the Cover Crop Strategies podcast, brought to you by GS3 Quality Seed, listen to a conversation with Faulkton, S.D., grower Alex Frasier, as he discusses his unique practice of interseeding a cover crop mix into soybeans and how it has helped him save on fertilizer, fuel and other costs.
May 17, 2024 | Posted in Seeding Practices
In this episode of the Cover Crop Strategies podcast, brought to you by GS3 Quality Seed,   listen to a conversation with Deer Park, Wis., agronomist Joe Ailts, as he discusses everything from nitrogen for a following corn crop, best cover crop blends following small grain harvest, the most outside-the-box ideas he has encountered as an agronomist and much more.
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A Win-Win for Cover Crops in the Chesapeake Bay

By John Dobberstein posted on May 24, 2019 | Posted in Soil Health
Cover crops have been a key tool for protecting water quality in the Chesapeake Bay region and helping farmers improve soil tilth and health, but regulating nitrogen (N) with covers has proven difficult. Read what Penn State University researchers discovered about the ability of different species to sequester and fix N.
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Cover Cropping in Integrated Farming Systems

Cover Cropping in Integrated Farming Systems

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.

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