cover crop mixes

[Video] What to Consider When Adding Winter Peas to Cover Crop Mixes

May 10, 2024 | Posted in Seeding Practices

Winter peas are popular additions to cover crop mixes, but adding these costly seeds to a mix doesn't always pay off, says Lisa Kissing Kucek, USDA plant research geneticist.

Study on Cover Crop Mixtures Delivers Surprising Results

By Johannes Seiler posted on October 27, 2023 | Posted in Soil Health

Source: Phys.org

Farmers usually plant cover crops after harvesting their main crop. This prevents erosion of the soil and nutrient leaching. The roots of these crops also stabilize the structure of the soil. It had been assumed that a mixture of different cover crops would result in particularly intensive rooting.

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Cover Crop Strategies' Best of the Web: Nov. 25, 2022

November 25, 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.

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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.

Study Shows a Single Cover Crop Can Outperform Mixes

August 25, 2022 | Posted in Seeding Practices, Soil Health

Source: Phys.org

This multiyear field study, featured in the journal Weed Science, compared 19 monoculture cover crops from four taxonomic groups (brassica, forb, grass, and legume), with 19 mixtures containing multiple plants that represented from 1 to 3 cover crop species.

[Podcast] Talking Cover Crops and Soil Health with CropScout Christie

June 16, 2022 | Posted in Seeding Practices, Soil Health, Termination

In this edition of the Cover Crop Strategies podcast, brought to you by La Crosse Seed, Christie Apple, AKA CropScout Christie, joins us this week. Apple details how cover crops have impacted soil health on her farm. She also shares success stories from various clients. Looking to plant covers this summer? Apple gives us a few options.

Need for Feed Provides Added Bonus: Soil Health

By Lucinda Stuenkel posted on May 31, 2022 | Posted in Grazing, Soil Health

We have a diversified 1,000-acre farm in north central Kansas, growing wheat, rye, oats, triticale, milo, soybeans, brome, alfalfa and native prairie hay.

Planning Termination of Cover Crop Mixes for 2022

November 5, 2021 | Posted in Termination

Source: Hoosier Ag Today

There are some options for fields that have a mixture of cover crop species growing in them and how to effectively terminate the cover crops before corn or soybean production. Read more in this article from Hoosier Ag News.

Impact of Cover Crops on Yield

December 9, 2020 | Posted in Seeding Practices

Source: Southern Minnesota

The benefits of planting cover crop mixtures include the potential for additional nutrients to the subsequent cash crop, improved livestock feed and improved soil health, among other benefits. But farmers adopting multispecies cover crops are also interested in learning about the yield response of the crop planted following a cover crop. Read more in this article from Southern Minnesota.

Selecting the Right Cover Crop Mix

November 6, 2020 | Posted in Seeding Practices

Source: DRG News

There’s no one-size-fits-all cover crop mix. So, selecting the right cover crop mix may seem a bit overwhelming. Read more in this article from DRG News.