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How to Use the Bt Trait Table for U.S. Corn Production

By Chris DiFonzo posted on February 22, 2024 | Posted in Soil Health

Source: Texas A&M University & Michigan State University

A helpful list of trait packages to make it easier to understand seed guides, sales materials, and bag tags.

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?

Improving Pastures by Frost Seeding Legumes During the Month of March

March 1, 2023 | Posted in Seeding Practices

Source: Michigan State University Extension

March is the month across much of Michigan to improve pastures by frost-seeding legumes like clovers or some grasses into them. Frost-seedings are most successful when the seed is broadcast approximately 45 days before grass growth begins in your area.

Cover Crops: An Opportunity to Improve Ag Literacy

By Sarah Hill posted on January 6, 2021

“People like seeing livestock grazing on cover crops. It’s aesthetically pleasing.”

[Podcast] Grazing Covers a Win-Win for Growers, Livestock Producers

This week’s podcast, sponsored by Yetter Equipment, features Richard Ehrhardt, Senior Extension Specialist for Small Ruminants, Michigan State University

December 22, 2020 | Posted in Grazing

This week’s podcast, sponsored by Yetter Equipment, features Richard Ehrhardt, Senior Extension Specialist for Small Ruminants, Michigan State University. Ehrhardt discuss how grazing cover crops can reduce feed costs for livestock producers, which species of livestock are best suited for grazing covers, how covers can extend the grazing season for livestock producers, and more.

[Video] Applying Liquid Manure to Cover Crops

June 24, 2020 | Posted in Soil Health

Michigan State University Environmental Management Extension Educator Sarah Fronczak explains how cover crops retain nutrients in the soil, when liquid manure should be applied, the benefits of applying manure in the fall, and more.

[Video] Brassicas as a Cover Crop

May 26, 2020 | Posted in Soil Health

Michigan State University Extension Sustainable Agriculture Educator Dean Baas discusses why brassicas are an excellent cover crop species, including radish, turnip, rapeseed and mustard; what is unique about the root system of brassicas; why turnips are helpful for reducing soil compaction; and more.

[Video] Getting Your Drill Ready to Seed Cover Crops

May 13, 2020 | Posted in Seeding Practices

Paul Gross, Field Crops Educator with Michigan State University Extension, explains why calibrating your grain drill is one of the most important things to do when planting cover crop seed, the differences when preparing to plant a single cover crop species or a cover crop mix, why you should always measure 200 feet in the field before calibration, and more.

[Video] Choosing Cover Crops

April 20, 2020 | Posted in Seeding Practices

In this video, Dean Baas, Michigan State University Extension Sustainable Agriculture Educator, discusses why plants go through the same lifecycle, regardless of planting date; examples of summer annual cover crops; which cover crop species grow large amounts of biomass; and more.

[Video] Sorghum for Cover Crops & Forage

April 6, 2020 | Posted in Grazing

Kim Cassida, Forages & Grazing Educator with Michigan State University Extension, discusses the three ways to use cover crops as forage, why sorghum works particularly well as a forage and cover crop, which species have the most dry matter yields as a forage crop, and more.

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How to Use the Bt Trait Table for U.S. Corn Production

Managing Root Rot in Cover Crops with Pulses

Improving Pastures by Frost Seeding Legumes During the Month of March

Cover Crops: An Opportunity to Improve Ag Literacy

[Podcast] Grazing Covers a Win-Win for Growers, Livestock Producers

[Video] Applying Liquid Manure to Cover Crops

[Video] Brassicas as a Cover Crop

[Video] Getting Your Drill Ready to Seed Cover Crops

[Video] Choosing Cover Crops

[Video] Sorghum for Cover Crops & Forage

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