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:

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Cover Crops & Weed Control

In this YouTube video from Practical Farmers of Iowa, learn about how an increasing number of farmers are designing cover cropping systems that smother weeds and improve their overall weed management systems.

Day in the Life of a Young Cover Cropper

Follow along with young Pennsylvania farmer Trenton, who takes viewers through a day in the life on his father’s farm. From equipment tips to harvesting cover crops and lots more, this video shows how dedicated farmers can be even at such an early age.

One Farmer’s Cover Crop Origin Story

Keith Rohl of Rohl Farms in Homer, Ill., says he always wanted to leave his land better than the way he found it. In this video, Rohl talks about the day he first decided to try cover crops on his own farm and how he feels he is finally owning his responsibility to improve the soil for future generations.

Cover Crops & Water Quality

In this video from University of Wisconsin Integrated Pest & Weed Management, learn about overwintering cover crops in spring and some of the water quality implications that go along with having those cover crops on the landscape and how they can help prevent nutrient loss.

Farmer on TikTok Says Dave Brandt Inspired Him to Plant Cover Crops, Already Seeing Benefits

Alex Doll, known better by his TikTok username of Grandpa Doll, posted this video explaining how he first learned about no-till and cover crops from watching Dave Brandt’s videos on YouTube a few years ago. Doll planted his first standing cover crop this year.

@grandpa.doll Population on the cover needs to be doubled #covercrop #covercrops #rollcrimp #notill #fyp #farmtok #farmlife #plant2023 #johndeere #caseih #newholand ♬ original sound - Alex "Grandpa" Doll

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