Cover crops and soil residual herbicides can make a powerful weed control duo, but only if those herbicides actually reach the soil. Penn State, Virginia Tech, and University of Delaware researchers recently examined how much cover crops (and cover crop management) can prevent herbicides from reaching the soil, as well as which herbicide chemistries are more likely to wash-off cover crops through rainfall.

Earlier this summer I caught up with Pennsylvania no-tiller Grant Troop and he filled me in on a unique Smart Manure Aeration System that puts dollars and time back in the pockets of no-tillers and he even refers to it as “a soil health dream.”

This past weekend as I was helping my friend weed her small flower garden, I reflected on the many hours of my life I have spent pulling weeds.

A July 22 webinar features Iowa State University’s Shelby Gruss and Matthew Helmers in a Beyond the Basics live dialogue about extending cover crop benefits to include value from forage opportunities.