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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Corn Planter Setup for Planting Green

Will Cannon of Prairie City, Iowa shares practical tips on his planter setup for planting corn into a living cereal rye cover crop. He gives a tour of his corn planter and talks about floating row cleaners, no-till coulters, spiked closing wheels, drag chains, and more. He also shows how he makes adjustments in the field depending on soil conditions.

Congress Attempts to Walk-Back Commitment to Regenerative Ag Funds

When Dan Janski, a 30-year-old farmer from South Haven, Minn., planted cover crops on his family's Stearns County farm in 2016, he said it was a eureka moment. Now, some on Capitol Hill want to reallocate the funding that made this climate-smart experimentation possible.

Farmer Collecting Corn

Photo by: BOB FILA | CHICAGO TRIBUNE, STAR TRIBUNE

No-Tiller Talks On Decision-Making Process for Roller Crimping or Harvesting Cover Crops

Organic grower Klaas Martens of Lakeview Organic Grain in Penn Yan, NY discusses adaptive management of a triticale-winter pea cover crop ahead of organic soybeans as part of a flexible approach to organic no-till production. Klaas reviews his decision-making process in roller-crimping or harvesting a cover crop for forage, and how his diversified operation facilitates this adaptive strategy.

Soil Health Podcast Troubleshoots Common Cover Crop Termination Issues

The latest episode of the Soil Health Podcast from Conservation Cropping Systems Initiative (CCSI) features Pierceton, Ind., farmer Jamie Scott and Purdue Professor of Weed Science Bill Johnson as they discuss scouting and troubleshooting cover crop termination issues. They also talk about the better herbicide modes of action for challenging weather conditions and other issues, such as avoiding tank mixes that reduce herbicide efficacy.

Planting No-Till Soybeans into Living Rye Cover Crop

Planting soybeans into living cereal rye cover crops — and terminating the cover crop after planting — lets you maximize the benefits of cover crops: more biomass for weed control, nutrient retention and organic matter. Jeremy Gustafson of Boone, Iowa no-tills soybeans into standing cereal rye cover crops, and in this video, he talks about the adjustments he’s made to his soybean planter to aid in planting.

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