For Cover Crop Creativity, the Best is Yet to Come

Trial and error trumps comfort zone complacence in strip-tiller Trent Sanderson’s perpetual pursuit of cover cropping innovation.

April 24, 2020

The greatest of growing seasons has little affect on Trent Sanderson’s approach to cover crops across his family’s 2,000-acre corn, soybean and wheat operation in Clare, Ill. In his mind, more can always be done to maximize the value of every field, whether it’s a new seed variety, application method or frugal machinery investments.

[Video] Nitrogen & Cover Crops

February 24, 2020 | Posted in Seeding Practices

Ricardo Costa, Field Crop Educator with Michigan State University Extension, discusses how cover crops interact with nitrogen, how to choose the right cover crop species for nitrogen fixing or scavenging, examples of each type of cover crops, and 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.

Finding the ‘Right’ Cover Crop Mix to Both Preserve and Supply N

May 1, 2019 | Posted in Economics

Source: Penn State University

Several researchers weigh in on what cover crop monocultures and mixtures do the best job of balancing nitrogen (N) sequestration to protect water quality while still contributing N to subsequent cash crops to improve yields.

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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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