How to Get the Most Bang for Your Buck with Cover Crops

Understanding cover crop trends can shed light on how to increase widespread cover crop adoption

By Mackane Vogel posted on July 13, 2024 | Posted in Grazing, Soil Health

Finding a way to make a solid ROI on cover crops (and no-till) is the key to making these practices more widespread.

Growers Share Advice for Introducing Cover Crops On Your Farm

By John Hart posted on December 12, 2023

Source: Farm Progress

Clay Lowe and Zeb Winslow encourage farmers to use a “take it slow” approach when it comes to adopting a cover crop program on your farm.

Cover Crop Use is a Multi-Faceted Issue

By Sarah Hill posted on October 22, 2021

When it comes to convincing growers to use cover crops in their operations, people make all the difference. That’s what the Nature Conservancy discovered in a study they funded that was done by a Purdue University professor and a researcher who had looked at farms in Indiana, Illinois and Iowa counties with relatively high adoption rates of cover crops.

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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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