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Editor Mackane Vogel brings you the latest cover crop update from the Cover Crop Connection segment featured in Conservation Ag Update's twice-per-month newscast.

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Ray McCormick’s Conservation Buffer

By Mackane Vogel posted on November 15, 2024 | Posted in Product Innovations & Introductions
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 and doing what he can with cover crops to improve his corn crop for next year.
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Cover Crop Tactics on Display at Soul of the Soil Conference

By Mackane Vogel posted on October 4, 2024 | Posted in Seeding Practices
This week we are in beautiful Galena, Ill., and we got a choice to check out the first ever Soul of the Soil Conference. This is put on by the Fields of Sinsinawa and we are actually going to toss it off to one of the presenters to talk a little bit about what’s going on in the world of cover crops at the first annual soul of the Soil Conference.
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Waterhemp Management Research Plots

By Mackane Vogel posted on August 2, 2024 | Posted in Seeding Practices

At an upcoming waterhemp management plot tour on O’Brien Family Farm in Brooklyn, Wis., I’ll be hearing from Rodrigo Werle, weed scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as well as others as they walk us through their weed suppression research. 


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Does It Pay to Add Winter Peas to a Cover Crop Mix?

By Mackane Vogel posted on July 3, 2024
Winter peas can be a great addition to a cover crop mix for many growers, but the cost of these seeds can be high and the return on investment doesn’t always pay off. USDA plant research geneticist Lisa Kissing Kucek is in Madison, Wis., at the forage research center where she and other researchers have been breeding winter peas for 7 years in a nationwide cover crop breeding network to study spring vigor, winter vigor, biomass and other benefits of various cover crop species.
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Ray McCormick’s Conservation Buffer

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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