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 & Carbon Intensity

During the TopSoil webinar, Mitchell Hora is joined by Dr. Rodrigo Werle, Associate Professor and Extension Cropping Systems Weed Scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Together, they share insight on the topics of offensive soil management tools like cover crops to help fight off weeds like waterhemp, herbicide programs, best practices of cover crops and the shown benefits of cover crops through research.

How to Increase Both Soil Health & Profits with Cover Crops & No-till

In this webinar titled “From Dirt to Soil,” Gabe Brown, a pioneer in the space of soil health, cover cropping, no-till and sustainable agriculture shares his story and answers questions regarding ways to make farms more profitable while also focusing on soil health.

Farming Matters Podcast: Benefits of Burning Cover Crops

On this episode of the Farming Matters Podcast, Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) field crop coordinator Ana Timmer talks about the benefits of doing prescribed burning of cover crops.

Managing Risks with Cover Crops

This webinar from University of Illinois farmdoc and Precision Conservation Management (PCM) shares key insights from an in-depth study of PCM farmers using cover crops.

Presenters Laura Gentry from the Illinois Corn Growers Association and Gary Schnitkey from the University of Illinois discuss using cereal rye before soybeans, optimal timing for planting and termination, leveraging incentive payments to offset costs and other potential cover crop benefits like reduced herbicide costs and improved weed control.

Using Cover Crops in a Christmas Tree Field

In this video, celebrate Christmas in April and see how a Pennsylvania sawmill and Christmas tree farm is utilizing cover crops for their business.

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