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.

[Video] First Time Use of Covers in an Almond Orchard

December 15, 2021 | Posted in Seeding Practices

This video follows a California grower as he uses cover crops for the first time in his almond orchard working with the National Center for Appropriate Technology and NRCS. His goals when using covers are to improve soil quality and providing habitat for beneficial insects and pollinators.

[Video] Meet Multiple Goals with Cover Crop Mixes

April 21, 2021 | Posted in Seeding Practices

In this video from Penn State University, find out what cover crop species make an effective mixture, why adding more cover crop species to a mixture means more functionality, challenges to using cover crop mixtures, and more.

Cover Crops Need an Escape Plan

September 18, 2020 | Posted in Termination

Source: AgWeek

How are you going to terminate the cover crop if it produces too much biomass? What timing will you use to terminate? Read more in this article from AgWeek.

[Video] Setting Up for Cover Crop Success

August 13, 2020 | Posted in Grazing

In this webinar, learn more about how to make a plan for your cover crops, the pros and cons of various cover crop seeding methods, how to select a cover crop seed species, and more.

Cover Crops: Endless Combinations

December 18, 2019 | Posted in Seeding Practices

Source: Manitoba Cooperator

It’s not enough to convince producers to give cover crops a shot — there needs to be a game plan. There are plenty of reasons why.

Cover Crop Success: a Book with Many Chapters

April 17, 2019 | Posted in Grazing, Soil Health

Source: Eau Claire (Wis.) Leader Telegram

A no-tiller from Wisconsin recently shared the soil health and risk management benefits he's realizing from seeding cover crops on his 500-acre cash crop and beef farm in western Wisconsin.

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Ray McCormick’s Conservation Buffer

Earlier this week we paid another visit to this year’s Conservation Ag Operator Fellow, Ray McCormick in Vincennes, Ind., and one thing about Ray is that even when it’s the “off season,” he’s still thinking ahead for next season.

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