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What is Narrow Strip Cropping?

September 2, 2024

The main benefit of Narrow strip cropping is to intercept sunlight more efficiently and maximize corn production

Managing Root Rot in Cover Crops with Pulses

By Sue Roesler posted on February 2, 2024 | Posted in Seeding Practices

Producers are increasingly planting cover crops to improve soil quality, help manage weeds or pests, and provide livestock forage – but is root rot a possibility when pulses, specifically peas and lentils, are added to improve the nutrition of the mix?

Guinness Uses Cover Crops in Regenerative Agriculture Pilot Project

By Charlotte Morrey posted on June 6, 2023 | Posted in Investing in Regenerative Ag

Source: Agriland

A regenerative agriculture pilot by Guinness that focuses on the reduction of greenhouse gases is now entering its second year of circulation. Last year, the company sowed cover crops to protect the land on which its barley is grown.

FMC Adastrio Fungicide Uses 3 Modes of Action to Target Late-Season Diseases

Fungicide features a new, FMC-exclusive molecule in the SDHI class fluindapyr.

November 10, 2022 | Posted in Product Innovations & Introductions

FMC is launching Adastrio fungicide on a limited commercial basis for the 2023 crop season. This fungicide is built to provide broad-spectrum control of key foliar diseases and help protect yield potential all the way through to harvest.

Reddick Farms Goes All in on No-Till and Cover Crops in Kentucky

Father-son duo takes leap of faith after eye-opening experience at National No-Tillage Conference.

August 30, 2022

No-till is nothing new for the Reddick family. Brad Reddick remembers growing up on the 1,800-acre farm in Bardwell, Ky., watching his father no-till the rolling grounds and conventionally till the creek bottom grounds over 50 years ago.

State Looks to Remove Barrier to Growing Cover Crops

By Sarah Hill posted on January 27, 2020

Maryland growers may see a change in the laws around cover crops. Frederick County Delegate Ken Kerr (D) plans to re-introduce a bill that would allow farmers growing cover crops to harvest them. Currently, the state of Maryland pays growers $75 per acre to grow covers, but if they take the money, they aren’t allowed to harvest the crop.

Cover Crops Make Winter the New Summer

December 23, 2019 | Posted in Seeding Practices

Source: Frederick News Post (Frederick, MD)

For many traditional row crop farmers, winter is the new summer. In the winter, row crop farmers often have cover crops which require no maintenance.

Barley of Particular Interest as a Cover Crop

December 20, 2019 | Posted in Seeding Practices

Source: Kenosha News

There simply are not many fields of barley in Illinois, Missouri and Iowa these days, and that’s not likely to change much. Cost, climate and marketing opportunities are most conducive to growing it elsewhere.