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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Tips for Planting Green into High-Residue Cover Crops with Trey Hill

Trey Hill and his staff at Harborview farms in Rock Hall, Maryland have spent a decade fine-tuning their corn and soybean planters to optimize their performance when planting green into high-residue cover crops. Check out this video to learn about planting setting considerations as well as soybean and corn planter set-up tips.

Using Cover Crops with Less Traditional Cash Crops

In this video, Aries Haygood of A&M Farms in Lyons, Ga., shows off a field where he planted cover crops with the hopes of combating erosion and building nutrients in the soil for his future Vidalia onions, which will eventually be planted in the same field.

What’s In Store for the Future of Cover Crop Seeding Methods?

In this article from Farm Progress, learn about some of the more advanced and technological methods for seeding cover crops including the efficiency of drones, harvest seeders and robots.

Flying Drone

LIFTOFF: Drones are growing in popularity for chemical applications across farm fields, but it’s been a slower adoption for seeding cover crops. That may change with the help of research from Missouri Soybeans and the University of Missouri. Photo by: MISSOURI SOYBEANS

Can Cover Crops Help During Drought?

No-Tillers in the No-Till Farmer Discussion Group debated about their level of concern for drought this upcoming season and how cover crops may or may not be helpful to their operation depending on their region, soil type and several other factors. To join in on the discussion and give your feedback on similar topics, click here to sign up.

Discussion-group

The Importance of Questioning Farm Management Traditions

In this episode of the Regenerative Agriculture Podcast with John Kempf, founder of Advancing Eco Agriculture, listen to second generation farmer Boe Clausen of Stokrose Farm in Washington as he and Kempf discuss cover crops, no-till, soil health and why it’s important to question age-old farm traditions.

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