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Grazing
Grazing cover crops can be a very profitable enterprise for cover crop users who are willing to do the management. This topic provides strategies for cover crop grazing and real-world examples with farmers and ranchers who are making the practice work on their farm. Grazing cover crops has the potential to improve not only animal health but soil health as well.
ARTICLES
Grazing Cover Crops Benefits Soil Health in Dryland Systems
K-State researchers have found that grazing cover crops can improve soil health in no-till dryland cropping systems, addressing a key concern for producers in water-limited environments like the central Great Plains.
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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
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Soil Health
Dave Brandt’s 5 Tips for Experienced Cover Croppers
Cover crop expert discusses his best practices for getting the most out of cover crops.
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PRODUCTS
Cover Crop Strategies Volume 5
$15.95
With this 16-page, newly-released edition of Cover Crop Strategies, you’ll discover the most popular cover crop planting time and method among U.S. farmers, why cover crops help, not hurt, during drought, when is the right time to terminate cereal rye to maximize yield suppression without hurting no-till soybean yield, how Cover Crop Coach Steve Groff is breeding a "legume version" of cereal rye, and MORE!
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Cover Crop Strategies Volume 1
$15.95
The editors of Cover Crop Strategies and No-Till Farmer created this 24-page special report to share ideas on getting covers established, using a roller-crimper for termination, successfully integrating livestock into a cover-crop system and using covers to transition away from an overdependence on herbicides and fertilizers. View
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Cover Crop Strategies Volume 4
$15.95
With this 16-page, newly-released edition of Cover Crop Strategies, you’ll discover how many graziers realize profitable returns from using cover as high- quality forage. Read how cover crop rotation paired with a grazing system completes a no-tiller’s holy grail of soil health. You’ll also hear from the late cover crop expert Dave Brandt as he discusses his best practices for getting the most out of cover crops.
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The National No-Tillage Conference returns January 7-10, 2025! Build and refine your no-till system with dozens of new ideas and connections at the 33rd Annual National No-Tillage Conference in Louisville, Ky. Jan. 7-10, 2025. Experience an energizing 4-day agenda featuring inspiring general session speakers, expert-led No-Till Classrooms and collaborative No-Till Roundtables. Plus, Certified Crop Adviser credits will be offered.
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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.
