6 Tips for Making Cover Crops Work with Your Tillage Practices

From seeding to termination, cover crop users and seed companies share their best advice for successfully incorporating cover crops into your operation, regardless of your choice in tillage tools.

June 21, 2022 | Posted in Seeding Practices, Termination

Whether a grower is making multiple tillage passes or is a dedicated no-tiller, their reasons for adding cover crops to their operations are probably pretty similar.

How to Prevent Cover Crops from Failing to Fix Nitrogen

September 30, 2020 | Posted in Soil Health

Source: SARE

Known for their ability to produce nitrogen, legumes actually partner with rhizobium bacteria to create or fix nitrogen through specialized organs in their roots called nodules. This unique relationship adds nitrogen back to the soil so it can be used as fertilizer by future crops. Read more in this article from the Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education (SARE) program.

Frost Your Fields with Cover Crops

By Sarah Hill posted on November 19, 2019

If you’re lucky enough to have completed harvest before snow fell on your fields — but haven’t planted a cover crop yet — not to worry. Planning ahead for a late winter or early spring frost seeding of covers might still be a viable alternative.

Scientists Discover How Plants Fix Nitrogen

June 7, 2016 | Posted in Soil Health

Source: John Innes Center

Scientists at the John Innes Centre in the U.K. have discovered an important component in the process of nitrogen fixation in plants.

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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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