Cover Crop Strategies' Best of the Web: Nov. 22, 2024

Cover Crop Strategies editors encounter a variety of articles, social media posts, podcasts and videos that offer a unique look at various aspects of our great agricultural industry. Here is our favorite content from the past week. The Best of the Web This Week series is brought to you by Saddle Butte Ag. Read More

Crop Survey Results Show Increase in Cover Cropping, Less Tillage

Results from the annual Iowa Nutrient Research & Education Council crop survey show Iowa farmers planted more than 3.8 million acres of cover crops in the 2023 crop year. Read More

Among Farmers With Dairy, How Well Do the Cows Adapt to Daylight Saving Time?

Whether it is “spring ahead” or “fall back” time, the schedules of farmers are somewhat impacted by the twice-a-year shifting of the clock. And for farmers spending time in the milking parlor, there’s a question on how cow behavior and milk production is affected. Read More

How Cover Crops Could Help the Midwestern Agriculture Business

As temperatures drop and winter approaches, many Midwesterners are planning for the holidays and eagerly awaiting the first snowfall. For the region’s farmers, though, winter means something else: the off-season, when their fields traditionally lie fallow. Read More

McCormick Joins PepsiCo to Advance Climate-Smart Ag with Soil and Water Outcomes Fund

In collaboration with PepsiCo, a global leader in food and beverage, the organizations will provide greater financial and technical support to farmers enrolled in the Midwest Climate-Smart Commodity Program helping to drive adoption of voluntary, regenerative agriculture practices. Read More

Cover Crops Can Thrive in Dormant Seeding

NDSU Extension Crop and Systems Specialist Victor Gomes says there’s evidence that certain cover crops can still be beneficial in drier soil conditions. Read More

Indigo Ag, Truterra Launch Strategic Collaboration to Expand Sustainability Solutions

The two companies said they will work toward creating a common framework for high-integrity agriculture sustainability programs that effectively responds to the demands of downstream buyers within and beyond the ag value chain by ensuring greater consistency and standardization of ag sustainability outcomes and delivering a broader spectrum of solutions. Read More

Videos

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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