Keith Berns

Is Cereal Rye the King of All Cover Crops?

By Keith Berns posted on November 3, 2024 | Posted in Seeding Practices, Soil Health, Termination

Source: Green Cover

As farmers and ranchers alike navigate the world of regenerative agriculture and cover crops, the humble cereal rye plant (Secale cereale) has been making a name for itself as the undisputed King of Cover Crops! This title has been earned for multiple good reasons and we will highlight a few of them here.

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Carbonomics: Opening a Carbon Currency Exchange Within a Cover Crop Ecosystem

Crop diversity and biological activity in a cover-cropped farming system ensures healthy interactions between plants, roots and soil organisms, says Keith Berns.

By Mark McNeely posted on April 15, 2020 | Posted in Soil Health

Likening a healthy, robust industrial economy to the types of biological activities taking place underground in a no-till, cover-cropped farming system isn’t a stretch of the imagination.

Carbonomics: Opening a Carbon Currency Exchange Within a No-Till Soil Ecosystem

Crop diversity and biological activity in a cover-cropped farming system ensures healthy interactions between plants, roots and soil organisms, says Keith Berns.

By Mark McNeely posted on March 10, 2018 | Posted in Soil Health

Likening a healthy, robust industrial economy to the types of biological activities taking place underground in a no-till, cover-cropped farming system isn’t a stretch of the imagination, says Keith Berns.

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Multiple Companion Cover Crops Enhance No-Till Soil

February 16, 2018 | Posted in Seeding Practices

Keith Berns and his brother Brian co-own Providence Farms and Green Cover Seed in Bladen, Neb. They farm 2,500 acres, including corn, soybeans, rye, triticale, peas, buckwheat and sunflowers using continuous no-till and a variety of cover crop strategies to maximize the health of their soil.